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| 13 | [[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Villainous Individuals and Organizations > '''Other Supervillains''' > [[Characters/MCUEmilBlonsky Emil Blonsky]] | [[Characters/MCUUltron Ultron]] | [[Characters/MCUDarrenCross Darren Cross]] | [[Characters/MCUHelmutZemo Helmut Zemo]] | [[Characters/MCUErikStevens Erik Stevens]] | [[Characters/MCUMysterio Mysterio]] | [[Characters/MCUKevinThompson Kevin Thompson]] | [[Characters/MCUAgathaHarkness Agatha Harkness]]) -]]] |
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| 15 | !! Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked. |
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| 17 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 19 | !Other Supervillains |
| 20 | !!Humans |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Helmut Zemo / Baron Zemo]] |
| 23 | -> See [[Characters/MCUHelmutZemo his page]] |
| 24 | [[/folder]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | !!!Enhanced humans |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Emil Blonsky / The Abomination]] |
| 29 | -> See [[Characters/MCUEmilBlonsky his page]] |
| 30 | [[/folder]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:Ava Starr / Ghost]] |
| 33 | !!''Ava Starr / Ghost'' |
| 34 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/avastarr.png]] |
| 35 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"You have no idea what I'm capable of".'']] |
| 36 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see the Ghost suit.]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ghost_profile_2jpg.jpg[softreturn] ''"Give me that. '''Now'''".''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 39 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' British, Argentine |
| 40 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly) |
| 41 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HannahJohnKamen, [=RaeLynn=] Bratten (young) |
| 42 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Fernanda Robles Patiño (Latin American Spanish), Creator/RieTanaka (Japanese) |
| 43 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' | ''Film/{{Thunderbolts*}}'' |
| 44 | |
| 45 | ->''"They call it molecular disequilibrium. A rather dull name I think. Doesn't quite do justice to what it means. Every cell in my body is torn apart and stitched back together, over and over every day".''\ |
| 46 | |
| 47 | The daughter of Elihas Starr, a former partner of Hank Pym's. Her parents were killed in an experiment involving quantum energy, and the explosion granted her the ability to phase through solid objects but caused her molecules to slowly rip apart. She was discovered by S.H.I.E.L.D. and trained as a stealth operative, using a special suit that allows greater control of her powers and slows her decay. When S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed, she turned to desperate methods to hopefully find a cure for her condition. |
| 48 | ---- |
| 49 | * AdaptationDeviation: MCU Ghost nails the look and power type in regards to comic accuracy, but the similarities end there. |
| 50 | ** MCU Ghost is a younger, mixed-race woman. Comics Ghost is an older, white man. |
| 51 | ** MCU Ghost got her powers from a freak accident. Comics Ghost is [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman tech-based]] and draws all of his power from the suit. |
| 52 | ** MCU Ghost relies entirely on hand-to-hand combat and has some kind of SuperStrength. Comics Ghost mainly relies on evading his enemies and using weapons and gadgets. |
| 53 | ** MCU Ghost has her origin related to Hank Pym and menaces Ant-Man and the Wasp. Comics Ghost has had nothing to do with Pym and is chiefly an ComicBook/IronMan villain. |
| 54 | ** MCU Ghost has a sympathetic backstory and is looking out for her survival. Comic Ghost in comparison has a [[TheSpook murky]] backstory and is an anti-corporate terrorist willing to die for his beliefs. |
| 55 | ** MCU Ghost has ties to Elihas Starr (Egghead) and Bill Foster (Goliath) as her biological and adopted parent, respectively, and was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Comics Ghost had nothing to do with any of them. |
| 56 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: The comics' version of Ghost is an older, plain-looking man. In ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' Ghost is portrayed by Hannah John-Kamen, who is a beautiful young woman. |
| 57 | * AdaptationalBadass: This version of Ghost doesn't need the suit to use her powers, and is a significantly better hand-to-hand combatant who appears to have some kind of enhanced strength. That said, she [[AdaptationalWimp loses some of the other talents in the transition]]. |
| 58 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Unlike her comic book counterpart, who is a paranoid terrorist, Ava's just looking for a way to stabilize her condition and only explicitly wants to kill Janet out of necessity... Until it turns out that she doesn't have to. Although it has to be said that Comic Ghost did act quite heroic during his time as Thunderbolt, saving his teammates' lives and the world. |
| 59 | * AdaptationalSkill: She has hand-to-hand combat and assassination training that her comic book counterpart lacks. |
| 60 | * AdaptationalSympathy: The Ghost in the comics claims that he was the victim of corporate greed, having been seduced by one of his company's henchwoman to build them a profitable new invention, lost her to said company when she tried squeezing more money out of them and became a vengeful, intangible being when a hitman almost took his own life to keep him from squealing. This Ghost, now a woman, was just a little girl when her father's invention went off during a S.H.I.E.L.D. raid, causing her to become permanently intangible, and at risk of falling apart every day, she's still around. Everything she does in this movie is to try and save herself from dying, in contrast to the vengeful and angry comics version. |
| 61 | * AdaptationalWimp: The comics version of Ghost is an expert with firearms and explosives, and furthermore is a skilled hacker (being a corporate saboteur and all) who can disrupt enemy electronics and would've definitely proved useful against our heroes. This version doesn't use guns at all, nor can she hack anything. That said, she [[AdaptationalBadass gains more in the way of direct combat skills]]. |
| 62 | * AffablyEvil: In the loosest sense as she is not evil (though she is Scott and Hope's main enemy throughout the film), she does show respect for Scott and refuses to kill anyone who she doesn't have to. When her condition is stabilized, she no longer antagonizes Scott and the Pyms, who begin working to find her a permanent cure. |
| 63 | * AgeLift: Ghost is [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/6/62014/1228415-prv5120_pg7.jpg an old man]] beneath the mask in the comics, but here Ghost's actress was only 27 at the time of filming. |
| 64 | * AllThereInTheManual: Her last name, Starr, is only explicitly identified in the credits, though her father is mentioned as having the same last name during the film proper. |
| 65 | * AntiVillain: Her only goal is to stop her powers from killing her, with the only villainous aspect of her character being that she is willing to do anything to do that. Even that aspect is a result of her desperation to avoid dying and the effect her condition is having on her mind rather than any kind of malice. When Janet uses her quantum powers to stabilize her condition, she ceases her "evil" behavior entirely, and Scott refers to her later as their friend when researching a cure for her. |
| 66 | * AxCrazy: Feeling as much pain as she does all the time and knowing that her life is ticking away is causing her to become unhinged, to the point where Bill Foster looks alarmed when she suggests kidnapping Cassie. |
| 67 | * BadassBiker: She commandeers a motorcycle from one of Burch's {{Mooks}} during the climactic chase scene, and proves plenty skilled with it. |
| 68 | * BigBadEnsemble: Alongside Sonny Burch, she's one of the main villains of ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp''. Of the two, while Burch is eviler and would cause more damage with the Pym Particles, Ghost is more directly dangerous and competent. |
| 69 | * BlessedWithSuck: Her intangibility powers are slowly killing her. |
| 70 | * TheBusCameBack: She's set to return in ''Thunderbolts*'', a full six years after her first appearance in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp''. |
| 71 | * CanonForeigner: Not the Ghost identity itself, but the specific character of Ava Starr was invented for the movie. While she is connected to established Marvel character Elias Starr/Egghead, he doesn't have a daughter in the comics. He ''did'' have a niece that Ava takes a few cues from, as detailed under CompositeCharacter below, but they aren't the exact same character. |
| 72 | * CelebrityParadox: |
| 73 | ** ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has been mentioned in an episode of ''{{Series/Luke Cage|2016}}''. Creator/HannahJohnKamen played Ornela in the sixth season of the series. |
| 74 | ** ''Franchise/StarWars'' was referenced in several MCU films and television shows. Creator/HannahJohnKamen made a brief cameo as a First Order Officer in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. |
| 75 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Subverted. The heroes initially assume this is the case, but Ava does not need the suit to use her powers, though it does help her control them and keep her solid. It's also another contrast to her comics version, which played this entirely straight. |
| 76 | * CompositeCharacter: While Ava is largely a unique character since in most other universes Egghead never had a wife or child, she combines traits of Egghead's niece, Patricia Star, along with those of the supervillain, Ghost. |
| 77 | ** Ava and Trish are members of Egghead's family and have notable interactions with Ant-Man, though their interactions with Egghead and Hank Pym are somewhat reversed. Ava idolizes her father and her desperation to ensure her survival has placed her against Hank Pym and Scott Lang, while Trish has a close friendship with Pym and has suffered and been manipulated by her uncle. |
| 78 | ** Like Patricia, Ava suffers from a disability unintentionally caused by Elihas, Trish lost her left arm because of a car bomb her uncle set and Ava suffers from physical instability caused by powers she gained from the malfunction of her father's experiment. Both have also remedied their situations through the use of technology, Ava stabilizes her condition using her Ghost suit and Trish has used a bionic arm to replace her missing one. |
| 79 | ** Like Ghost, Ava is a tech-enhanced thief with intangibility powers. Though Ghost's powers originate from his suit, Ava's powers are regulated by her suit. |
| 80 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Although she has body-altering abilities as Darren Cross did, they're based on intangibility rather than size-shifting. Also, while Darren came to hate Pym, his mentor, and was driven by unhinged megalomania, Ava is merely motivated out of desperation to survive and cares about her [[ParentalSubstitute parental-figure]] Bill Foster. Even their approaches to Cassie Lang are different. While Cross has zero qualms about kidnapping her and is more than willing to [[WouldHurtAChild hurt her]], Ava proposes it out of desperation and is easily talked out of it after Foster [[WhatTheHellHero rebukes her]] for suggesting this. |
| 81 | * DaddysGirl: She's very close to her adoptive father Bill Foster who helped her control her powers and promised her that he would find a cure for her condition. She also loved her biological father Elihas so much that she tried to run towards him when the Quantum Tunnel was going to kill him to ensure that he doesn't die alone. |
| 82 | * DarkActionGirl: A deadly, highly intelligent, and extremely athletic thief. She fights on even footing with both Scott and Hope at multiple points throughout the film and even overpowers them on a few occasions. |
| 83 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Hank Pym fired and discredited her father. In a desperate bid to restore his name, he attempted an experiment that backfired horribly, leading to both of Ava's parents being killed and leaving her alive with a condition that causes her constant, progressively worse pain. S.H.I.E.L.D., compromised by HYDRA infiltrators, promised to cure her but instead trained her to be a spy and assassin; she claims the dirty work she did for them felt like losing her soul. The suit she wears is a holdover from her days as an assassin. |
| 84 | * {{Determinator}}: Ava's sole motivation is finding a cure for her powers, which are gradually killing her. She's willing to do ''anything'' if it means achieving that goal. |
| 85 | * DramaPreservingHandicap: Her {{Intangibility}} and {{Invisibility}} powers make her nigh-unstoppable and unbeatable and she pretty much is given how Scott and Hope are almost no match for her despite being {{Sizeshifter}}s. The only reason she doesn't become completely undefeatable is because of her powers' instability which is not only slowly killing her but also negatively affects her mental state. |
| 86 | * EasilyForgiven: Instead of being mad at Ava for trying to kill her, Janet stabilizes her condition. Scott, Hank, and Hope aren't that worried either. |
| 87 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She genuinely cares for her father-figure Bill Foster and panics slightly when he's in danger. |
| 88 | * EvilBrit: A ruthless DarkActionGirl who speaks with Creator/HannahJohnKamen's natural British accent. The "evil" part is a bit questionable, though, as she [[TragicVillain merely wants to cure her debilitating condition]], and stops opposing the Pym family when Janet helps her, and TheStinger shows that they are continuing research for a cure for their "ghost friend". |
| 89 | * FateWorseThanDeath: She sees her quantum instability as this, being forced to live in a state of constant pain all while her very existence is slowly being drained away. She still doesn't want to die though, and her whole objective is to find a cure for her condition. |
| 90 | -->'''Ghost:''' My parents were dead. I wasn't so lucky. |
| 91 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 92 | ** To [[BigBadEnsemble co-antagonist]] Sonny Burch. Ghost is a young mixed-race black woman who's an AntiVillain at worst, does all the fighting herself without any minions, and is merely looking out for her own survival. In contrast, Sonny Burch is an older white man that has little-to-no sympathetic qualities while acting FauxAffablyEvil, doesn't do any of the fightings and instead [[ZergRush sends his minions to do all the dirty work]], and is chasing after what he knows will be the next gold rush. |
| 93 | ** She and Bill also function as a pair of foils to Hank and Hope: Hank is an emotionally distant father who abandoned his daughter in his grief, resulting in her pursuing a path separate from him when she grew old enough to be able to. Bill is an adoptive father figure to a grieving young girl, who helps her to stabilize her fatal condition and keeps her chained to morality; in exchange, Ava remains loyal to Bill. |
| 94 | * GenderFlip: Ghost is a man in the comics, but is portrayed by a woman in the MCU. |
| 95 | * GirlishPigtails: She sports these as a little girl and later as a young adult when she's stabilizing herself and not wearing her Ghost suit. |
| 96 | * HairstyleInertia: Has messy pigtails the present-day scene where she tells the heroes her backstory, which is intercut with scenes of her as a pigtail-wearing child. |
| 97 | * HeelFaceTurn: She wasn't all that evil in the first place, but once Janet stabilizes her, she's distraught at everything she's done and tries to surrender herself to the authorities. The heroes are all quick to forgive her, however, and Bill stops her from doing that. In the mid-credits scene, Scott mentions that the reason they're gathering the Quantum Realm energy is to continue healing "their new Ghost friend". |
| 98 | * HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: She wears her face-concealing helmet less and less as more of her TragicVillain nature becomes clear, and is unmasked for a majority of the climax after Scott breaks the faceplate. |
| 99 | * InNameOnly: Only shares the costume, alias, and powerset with Ghost in the comics. They differ in literally everything else, from age, to ethnicity, to nationality, and comic Ghost [[NoNameGiven wasn't even given a real name!]] |
| 100 | * InTheHood: Her costume sports a hood much like her comic counterpart's classic outfit. It helps add to her enigmatic presence. |
| 101 | * {{Intangibility}}: She has the ability to phase through solid matter. |
| 102 | * {{Invisibility}}: Her molecular instability also means she can phase out of the visible spectrum, and thus make sneak attacks more easily. |
| 103 | * IrrationalHatred: Of Hank Pym. She blames him for her father's actions even though all Hank did was expose him as a traitor, and is so consumed by her anger that she refuses to let him help her voluntarily. |
| 104 | * ItsAllAboutMe: A rare [[TragicVillain sympathetic version]]. While anyone in her shoes would also be desperate to stay alive, she constantly puts her own needs above everything else -- berating the very man who devoted his whole life to save her, callously attempting to drain the life out of Janet for personal use and even seriously considering [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping an innocent child]] (before [[EveryoneHasStandards Foster puts his foot down and warns her that's a bridge too far]], anyway). The implication is that the constant pain and agony she endures every second of every day has taken its toll on her psyche, to the point of overwhelming her compassion and empathy. Once she is cured, at least temporarily, she has a HeelRealization about this and feels she should face consequences for it. |
| 105 | * LethalHarmlessPowers: Her {{intangibility}} could theoretically cause horrible injuries were she to turn solid inside another person, notably when she threatens Hank by phasing an arm through his throat. She also kills Agent Stoltz by phasing her hand into his chest and doing ''something'' that leaves him critically injured. |
| 106 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: While considered a villain and having done some less-than-savory things, she's ultimately just scared for her life and doesn't ''truly'' wish to be evil. This is in comparison to co-antagonist Sonny Burch, a very clear-cut villain motivated by greed. |
| 107 | * LightIsNotGood: Her costume is all white, but that does not reflect her alignment. [[DownplayedTrope Though it does indicate she's not a horrible person.]] |
| 108 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She's horrified when Janet, the person she'd planned to sacrifice to save herself, willingly helps stabilize her condition. She's so consumed with guilt that she considers turning herself in. |
| 109 | * MythologyGag: Though her costume is mostly modeled after Ghost's modern design from the ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' comics, she still wears a hood, much like Ghost originally did in TheEighties. |
| 110 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: The name of her comic book counterpart is unknown, unlike the MCU version, whose name is Ava Starr. |
| 111 | * NecessarilyEvil: Her goal is saving her own life and while she wants to avoid any amount of unnecessary pain to get there, she's not too picky on who she hurts if it means getting what she wants. |
| 112 | * NeverMyFault: Ava blames Hank Pym for the deaths of her parents and ruining her life. In her flashback, however, had Ava listened to her father and left with her mother, not only would she lose only her father, she would not have gained her powers. |
| 113 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: She does ''not'' waste time in pursuing her objective; no comedic gags here. |
| 114 | * NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Hannah John-Kamen maintains her English accent, despite no indication Ghost is actually from there. We never actually hear her parents speak, though, so it's entirely possible she is and just moved to America with them when they worked for S.H.I.E.L.D./HYDRA. It's also suggested that she may be Argentinian. |
| 115 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: If ''Secret Invasion'' is anything to go by, [[spoiler:she was present at the Battle of Earth, as the Skrulls have access to her DNA through the Harvest.]] |
| 116 | * OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: The Younger Villain (albeit an AntiVillain) to Ant-Man and Wasp's Older Heroes. She's in her twenties, compared to the other two being older by at least a decade. |
| 117 | * ParentalSubstitute: Bill Foster serves as her adoptive father after her parents die. |
| 118 | * PartsUnknown: It's not quite clear where she's from. It's implied that she might be Argentinian but has a British accent, her birth and adoptive fathers are Americans, and her child actress is American herself while in the flashback she makes no attempt at an English accent. It's never explained. |
| 119 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: Hannah John-Karmen stands just 5'6" tall, but her abilities, including what appears to be some degree of SuperStrength, allow her to toss much larger opponents around like rag dolls. |
| 120 | * PowerIncontinence: The longer she goes without resting in a special chamber built for her by Bill Foster, the more out-of-control her {{intangibility}} grows. Her suit goes a ways toward stabilizing the problem but doesn't fully diminish it. |
| 121 | * RaceLift: Ghost is Caucasian in the comics, but is portrayed by a British-Nigerian actress here. It's suggested that she's Argentinian. |
| 122 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the comics, the Ghost had no relation to Egghead. Here, the Ghost is Elihas Starr's daughter. She's also the adopted daughter of Bill Foster, whereas the comics versions of them had no connection. |
| 123 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: Ghost is a rival to Iron Man in the comics, but confronts Ant-Man in her debut film. |
| 124 | * SamusIsAGirl: She was first seen in costume and Hank assumed she was male. |
| 125 | * SanitySlippage: The side-effects of her powers, combined with her DarkAndTroubledPast, make Ava not entirely stable even when first introduced, and she only gets worse as her condition (and with it, her desperation to find a cure) worsens. |
| 126 | * ScaryBlackWoman: She's Black British and very scary as Ghost, especially her SanitySlippage that causes her to become AxCrazy. |
| 127 | * SlasherSmile: Gives Scott a rather unhealthy grin when she first captures him and shares her backstory. |
| 128 | * TheSlowWalk: She rarely moves quicker than a casual strut, even during fights and chase scenes. Given that her powers allow her to ignore any and all obstacles, on top of making her functionally NighInvulnerable, she doesn't really ''need'' to go any faster. It's her SignatureMove. |
| 129 | * StringyHairedGhostGirl: Her new look counts as an AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance, not to mention the element of vengeance in her backstory. |
| 130 | * SuperStrength: Though the film never explicitly calls attention to it, Ava performs a number of feats throughout the film that suggests she's gained some level of enhanced strength in addition to her other powers, including knocking people out with a single well-aimed hit, blowing Scott through a wall with a kick, and throwing full-grown men around like toys. |
| 131 | * TheseHandsHaveKilled: S.H.I.E.L.D., or possibly a HYDRA cell within the organization, trained her as an assassin from childhood, and we get to see her dispatch at least one victim with a brutal NeckSnap. Towards the end of the film, when she tries to get Bill to GoOnWithoutMe, she states that she isn't worth saving since she's killed many people. |
| 132 | * TimeShiftedActor: Creator/HannahJohnKamen plays her as an adult, while RaeLynn Bratten plays her as a child during flashback scenes. |
| 133 | * TragicVillain: She is an evil-doing woobie. In a childhood accident with her father's tech, Ava lost both of her parents and gained powerful but unstable abilities that leave her in constant pain and are slowly phasing her out of reality, with the only end possibilities being death or [[FateWorseThanDeath something much worse]]. The skills she uses were honed by black ops missions for S.H.I.E.L.D. (or maybe HYDRA). Every single action she undertakes, even as they grow increasingly heinous and brutal as time goes on, is exclusively devoted to fixing her condition which is destabilizing her mental state. All of the good guys recognize her as a victim of circumstance, and she ultimately [[EasilyForgiven gets away with zero consequences]]. |
| 134 | * TwoFirstNames: Starr is not as commonly used as Ava when it comes to first names. |
| 135 | * TykeBomb: She was trained by S.H.I.E.L.D. (or possibly HYDRA) to be an assassin from a young age. |
| 136 | * UncertainDoom: It's still unknown if she survived [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Thanos's fingersnap]] or became one of the unlucky fifty-percent who disintegrated. And even if she was spared, her situation at the end of ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' was still critically precarious, as she needed quantum energy to survive, and the only person still alive on Earth during that time with access to it was stuck inside the Quantum Realm for five years (though he perceived it [[YearOutsideHourInside as five hours]]). Even ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' provided no answers, because she didn’t appear on-screen at the final battle against Thanos, and went entirely unmentioned in the movie. Her announcement as one of the members of the Thunderbolts for their upcoming eponymous film indicates that she did survive, but the details and means are still unknown, especially whether if she did get snapped and got brought back.. |
| 137 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: She was just an ordinary little girl until she got caught in a quantum accident that killed both of her parents and gave her unstable powers that was slowly killing her and gave her mental instability. |
| 138 | * VileVillainSaccharineShow: She's pretty much the only character in ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' that has zero comedic qualities, and the film's normally lighthearted mood gets ''significantly'' darker and more serious whenever she's on-screen. |
| 139 | * VillainousBreakdown: A relatively subtle one in the climax. Her increasing anger and desperation, as well as her condition worsening, results in her fighting somewhat more sloppily than she usually does. While Ava had the upper hand on Hope during their first fight, Hope gets a few good hits on Ava in the final battle. |
| 140 | * VillainousCrush: Downplayed. When she has Scott tied up and at his mercy midway through ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'', Ava clearly seems to have some kind of ... interest in the man. She doesn't linger on it long though, and quickly gets down to business. |
| 141 | * WouldHurtAChild: Hurt is a stretch, but she proposes kidnapping Cassie Lang to use as a bargaining chip against Scott and the others. It's more out of her desperation than any malicious intent, and she is easily talked out of going that route. |
| 142 | * YouKilledMyFather: Downplayed. She considers Hank Pym responsible for the deaths of her parents, but it ultimately has little to do with her motivations. While she's more than willing to get his wife killed if it means curing her condition, that's more out of her own desperation rather than a desire for revenge against Hank. |
| 143 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: Bill Foster tells her she has about two weeks left before her unstable nature reaches a point of no return. |
| 144 | [[/folder]] |
| 145 | |
| 146 | [[folder:Marcus Daniels / Blackout]] |
| 147 | !!''Marcus Daniels / Blackout'' |
| 148 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blackout_aos_4670.jpg]] |
| 149 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"They were trying to make me stronger. And they did".'']] |
| 150 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 151 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 152 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Patrick Brennan |
| 153 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 154 | |
| 155 | ->''"A few years ago, I saw Daniels at one of my concerts, front row. Then I started seeing him at all of them. At first, I was flattered. Cellists don't get many groupies. But then one night, I saw him outside of my house. I was terrified. I begged him to leave me alone. He just stood there, saying I was his light. I didn't understand what he meant until he started blacking out my entire block".'' |
| 156 | -->-- '''Audrey Nathan'''\ |
| 157 | |
| 158 | A former prisoner of the Fridge, Daniels was let out by the Clairvoyant and told to "follow his dreams". |
| 159 | ---- |
| 160 | * AmbiguousSituation: A creative involved with ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' has implied that Patrick Brennan's character is a younger version of the character that is shown on ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', but nothing else supports this. |
| 161 | * BadassLongcoat: Sports a black trenchcoat when hunting his crush. |
| 162 | * CastingAShadow: He's able to project beams of Darkforce. |
| 163 | * ColorCharacter: '''Black'''out. |
| 164 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: DoubleSubverted. Though he's never referred to as Blackout, his S.H.I.E.L.D. file does list his codename, even though Coulson's arm is positioned to block most of it. |
| 165 | * DarkIsEvil: Uses the Darkforce and wears black. |
| 166 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Appears in "Providence" before his focus episode. |
| 167 | * EnergyAbsorption: He's able to drain energy from nearby electrical devices, and can drain the electrical energy of living beings through physical contact. |
| 168 | * EvilWearsBlack: As befitting his codename, Blackout wears an entirely black outfit. |
| 169 | * MenacingStroll: He always moves at a calm, steady pace. |
| 170 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Invoked by Coulson when [[MrExposition telling the team]] Blackout's origin story. |
| 171 | -->'''Coulson:''' [[SarcasmMode Because nothing bad happens when you experiment with something called Darkforce]]. |
| 172 | * PhlebotinumOverload: How he was taken out in the past and present. The first time it just disabled him so S.H.I.E.L.D. could imprison him. Since he's been amped up in the present, Fitz devises gamma-powered lights that make him explode. |
| 173 | * StalkerWithACrush: Towards Audrey, who he calls his "only light in the darkness". |
| 174 | * TouchOfDeath: He can drain the energy from whatever he touches, including living beings. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:John Horton]] |
| 178 | !!''John Horton'' |
| 179 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 180 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Unknown |
| 181 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' N/A |
| 182 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' [[note]] Mentioned only [[/note]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | A prisoner of the Fridge that had attached lion paws to his hands. |
| 185 | ---- |
| 186 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the comics, John Horton was a small-time criminal who was captured by the Secret Empire who made experiments on him and administered an experimental mutagenic serum that turned him into the monstrous being known as Griffin. In the show, he's apparently just a criminal who gave himself lion paws. |
| 187 | * AdaptationalWimp: Implied. John Horton in the comics is a powerful supervillain with a bestial appearance that even includes wings, and he has SuperStrength, enhanced speed, and durability. In the show, John Horton is seemingly just a guy with lion paws, and John Garrett doesn't make a big deal about arresting him. |
| 188 | * BioAugmentation: He attached lion paws to his hands. |
| 189 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Even after he attached lion paws to his hands, Garrett still refers to him only by his name and not his codename "Griffin" from the comics. |
| 190 | * TheGhost: He's never seen onscreen, just mentioned by Garrett as the first criminal he locked up in the Fridge. |
| 191 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: In the comics, John Horton is mostly an enemy of the Avengers. In the MCU, he never actually faced any Avengers members and was arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. agent John Garrett, of all people. |
| 192 | * SealedEvilInACan: Horton had been imprisoned by S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Fridge until he was released by John Garrett and Grant Ward. |
| 193 | * UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: John Horton is the father of Yo-Yo Rodriguez in the comics. In the show, the two characters don't seem to have any relation to one another. |
| 194 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although he presumably has been released from the Fridge by John Garrett and Grant Ward alongside the other prisoners, it is unknown what became of him afterward. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Kevin Thompson / Kilgrave]] |
| 198 | -> See [[Characters/MCUKevinThompson his page]] |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Calvin Johnson / Calvin Zabo]] |
| 202 | !!''Dr. Calvin "Cal" L. Johnson / Calvin Zabo'' |
| 203 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctor_6983.jpg]] |
| 204 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Let's not lose our heads".'']] |
| 205 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 206 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 207 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Doctors Without Borders (formerly), Slicing Talons (formerly) |
| 208 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KyleMacLachlan |
| 209 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 210 | |
| 211 | -->''"You were looking for a monster?"''\ |
| 212 | |
| 213 | Skye's father, who worked with Raina at one point in the past. |
| 214 | ---- |
| 215 | * AdaptationNameChange: His comic book counterpart's name is Calvin ''Zabo'', but the show changes it to Calvin ''Johnson''. However, in "The Frenemy of My Enemy", he tells Skye that he changed it to "something more sinister" during his search for her, implying that he may have gone by Zabo at one point. This is presumably due to Skye's mother being completely different from Daisy Johnson's mother in the comics, meaning her last name had to come from her father instead. Some episodes of the second season do have his name given as "Zabo" at certain points in the subtitles. |
| 216 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: He has quite a few more redeeming qualities than the comics' Mr. Hyde, most of all his being horribly ashamed of what his darker half does. |
| 217 | * AffablyEvil: He's kinda… quirky when he's not being murderously psychotic. He refers to HYDRA's attempts to understand the Diviner as "monkeys scratching at it", mocks Whitehall's translation of an ancient legend concerning it, and scoffs at referring to it as a weapon as "small-minded… [[VerbalBackspace for such a large-minded person]]". However, he gets less affable as his obsession to get Skye to love him grows. |
| 218 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: It's unclear at first, given several characters referring to him as a "monster" and his deep knowledge of the Diviner despite never touching it himself. It's clarified in "One of Us" that while he knows a great deal about the Inhumans through his wife being one, he himself was an ordinary human who gained his strength and emotional instability through his own scientific manipulation. |
| 219 | * AntiVillain: Most of his villainy is fueled by extreme aggression that's he's unable to control, as well as the fact that he lost his daughter to S.H.I.E.L.D. and his wife to HYDRA. However, the thought of a race of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens coming down to Earth to end humanity except for a few "worthy" to be saved isn't something that terribly alarms him; in fact, he's looking forward to it. And he has no trouble causing chaos for S.H.I.E.L.D. by getting the "gifted" to make a fuss if it'll help him reunite with Skye. |
| 220 | * AxCrazy: The guy can go into casual murder mode rather quickly. |
| 221 | -->'''Triplett:''' That guy was out of his damn mind. |
| 222 | * BackAlleyDoctor: Patches up bullet and knife wounds for gang members… for a while, anyway. |
| 223 | * BadassBookworm: A doctor who easily defeats two HYDRA {{mooks}} with just a scalpel and a metal box he's carrying. |
| 224 | * BadBoss: Treats Raina like dirt, even though she helped him reunite him with Skye. He then throws her to the curb after he's done with her. |
| 225 | * BerserkButton: Oh, boy, does he have a few… |
| 226 | ** Loses it when Raina compares him to Whitehall, seeing Whitehall killed his wife to take her agelessness. |
| 227 | ** Bringing up his evil side has a similar effect. |
| 228 | ** Referring to his daughter as "Skye" too much isn't a good idea either. It produces more violent results when Lincoln does it. |
| 229 | --->'''Cal:''' '''THAT'S NOT HER NAME!''' |
| 230 | ** Anyone but himself taking a fatherly role for Skye also sets him off. |
| 231 | ** Getting between him and his vendetta against Whitehall is a very bad idea. Out of everything, that happens to be what finally causes him to try to kill Coulson. |
| 232 | ** Don't insult his daughter. A transformed Raina found that out the hard way. |
| 233 | * BigBadDuumvirate: Though he starts off in a BigBadEnsemble with Whitehall, the two team up at the end of "A Hen in the Wolf House" to kill Coulson and his team. Both betray each other, of course. For the season overall, he's this with his wife Jiaying. She's the greatest threat and FinalBoss, while Cal is the [[TheHeavy most consistent threat]]. She's clearly the dominant one in their partnership, and most of Cal's actions are taken with the intent to appease her before his HeelFaceTurn, but they still act as the joint central antagonists after Whitehall's death. |
| 234 | * BigBadWannabe: His petty feud with Coulson means he's only an inconvenience to him in the grand scheme of things. |
| 235 | * BittersweetEnding: The close of his story arc; he gets his memories erased and is allowed to make a new life for himself as a veterinarian completely under his original personality, that of a laughing, friendly, good-humored goofball. Of course, this means completely forgetting about not only the bad things he experienced, like his wife's torture and eventual death -- at his own hands -- but also all about his beloved daughter. |
| 236 | * BuffySpeak: At times, especially since he's offered his services to Whitehall. This is an instance where Skye's apple doesn't fall far from the tree. As soon as he tries to step up, he's rather unceremoniously plucked off the field by Gordon. |
| 237 | * BumblingDad: |
| 238 | ** When he finally reunites with his daughter, he fumbles his words and mentions that he wanted to have flowers and "those little almond-chocolate cookies" to greet her. |
| 239 | ** When he meets her again after her powers are activated, he acts like an excited fanboy. |
| 240 | --->'''Cal:''' So what's your thing? 'Cause I was kinda hoping for wings. |
| 241 | ** And in the back half of the second season, his every interaction with Skye is just bumbling awkward joy. |
| 242 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 243 | ** He regularly uses the phrase "Let's not lose our heads" as a self-calming method. |
| 244 | ** Tends to describe good things as the "best day ever". |
| 245 | ** Whenever someone refers to his daughter as Skye, he snaps at them with '''"THAT'S NOT HER NAME!"''' |
| 246 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's completely, utterly insane and knows it. He just can't stop himself. |
| 247 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never once referred to as "Mister Hyde", although his appearance in the Season 2 finale is highly reminiscent of the titular character from the original ''Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''. |
| 248 | * CurbStompBattle: He completely dominates the fistfight with Coulson in 2x10, being stopped by Skye very short of beating him to death. |
| 249 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Revealed over the course of the second season. A S.H.I.E.L.D. team full of HYDRA agents went after a village that included his wife and daughter. He managed to track down his wife and put her back together (though not the same as she was), but all he managed to do was slaughter a lot of people when he tried and failed to find his daughter. He has spent a quarter-century wanting revenge. |
| 250 | * DeadlyDoctor: He has a room with surgical equipment and his hands are always covered in blood when he meets with Raina. |
| 251 | * DeathOfPersonality: At the end of Season 2, his entire memory is erased and replaced with that of a cheerful veterinarian by way of the TAHITI project. It's implied that the 'new' him is the person he used to be before he became a monster. Thus, this is a DownplayedTrope. |
| 252 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: While he put a lot of thought into the tortures he would inflict on Whitehall, his actual plan to get there is rather lacking. He never counted on Whitehall figuring out his identity and has no concrete plan on how he'll get to Whitehall in the first place. Cal ends up trying to take on Whitehall while the latter has a gun, and Coulson shoots Whitehall in the back while Whitehall's distracted, saving the vengeance-driven doctor. |
| 253 | * DisappearedDad: Has not been a part of Skye's life for twenty-five years. To be fair, their separation wasn't his fault, he spent a great deal of those twenty-five years trying to find her, and once he did he starts trying to be part of her life again. Unfortunately for him, those twenty-five years have also turned him into someone his daughter doesn't want to know. |
| 254 | * TheDreaded: Raina is terrified of him because he's one of a few people she can't manipulate. |
| 255 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 256 | ** Is shown to dislike Whitehall, referring to him as "a butcher". Understandable, considering what the man did to his wife. |
| 257 | ** He has nothing but contempt for Raina, mainly because she's concerned about herself and nobody else. |
| 258 | * EvilCounterpart: To Bruce Banner, a very skilled doctor with a HairTriggerTemper he himself is horrified by. Though he's also quite violent in his normal state when he needs to be. This makes sense, given that Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde was one of the original inspirations for Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk. In the comics, Cal's supervillain moniker is "Mister Hyde". |
| 259 | * FakeShemp: Kyle [=MacLachlan=]'s casting wasn't announced until a couple of months after Season 1 ended, so that's probably not him in TheStinger for the finale. That person's hair is also gray. |
| 260 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Despite being Jiaying's husband, the Inhumans look down on him because of the artificial nature of his powers and his violent behavior, and they're not happy that his petty feud with S.H.I.E.L.D. endangers them. |
| 261 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Conspicuously does ''not'' touch the obelisk. It's made clear in "One of Us" that his powers come through experimentation and he isn't an Inhuman. |
| 262 | * {{Foil}}: Shaping up to be one for Ward. Both love Skye, but while Ward acknowledges how horrible he has been in the past and tries to win her over by being helpful, Cal tries to hide his dark side and intends to force Skye to come to him by killing Coulson. Also to Coulson, the father figure versus the father she never knew. |
| 263 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: He was a doctor working at a clinic in nowhere, China. He met a woman and fell in love. They had a daughter. Then HYDRA destroyed his family. |
| 264 | -->'''Cal:''' I worked at a clinic. People liked me. [[IAmAMonster I liked me...]] |
| 265 | * GoodParents: Really wants to be this for Skye, and when given the chance, he's doting and loving towards her. Unfortunately, Jiaying's manipulations made him turn into a monster. |
| 266 | * GreenEyedMonster: He has a fixated loathing and hatred of Coulson. While it is partly because he feels that the man robbed him of his chance of getting his revenge on Whitehall, it is clear that he sees Coulson as a ParentalSubstitute to Skye due to how close they seem to be, and perhaps an obstacle to him being able to put his family back together. |
| 267 | * HairTriggerTemper: He can flip out at the drop of a hat. Just look at the list of things classified as BerserkButton. |
| 268 | * TheHeavy: While never ascending to full BigBad status, Cal is the most consistently recurring and prominent antagonist of Season Two. |
| 269 | * HeelFaceTurn: Sides with Coulson's S.H.I.E.L.D. when he convinces him that what Jiaying is doing is wrong and will only hurt their daughter. |
| 270 | * HumanShield: Uses this tactic against HYDRA in "The Frenemy of My Enemy" by putting one of their own between him and their bullets. |
| 271 | * IAmAMonster: He's aware he's crossed the MoralEventHorizon several times over. Honestly, he was driven to it. |
| 272 | * ILied: He was very vague to Raina on what Terrigenesis actually ''was''. |
| 273 | * ItsAllAboutMe: His love for Skye is very unhealthy and obsessive; he wants her to love him and ''only'' him. |
| 274 | * ItsPersonal: Whitehall killed his wife, literally cutting her into pieces. He repeatedly states that he wants revenge on the people who took his family from him. Whitehall, who doesn't know him or his connection to the woman he killed, doesn't realize the implied threat. |
| 275 | * {{Jerkass}}: He emotionally manipulated Raina by preying on her desire to be something special, then point-blank refuses to help her cope with the transformation. |
| 276 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: In the second half of Season 2, he moves from being against Whitehall, to against S.H.I.E.L.D. -- and this does not go well for people caught in the middle. |
| 277 | * LackOfEmpathy: |
| 278 | ** Is completely unsympathetic to Raina when Whitehall threatens to have her killed and says that she was nothing before he found her. |
| 279 | ** When Raina undergoes Terrigenesis, he's dismissive of her and refuses to help her cope with the trauma of it, in stark contrast to his beloved wife, who dedicated her life to helping the Inhumans cope with the change. |
| 280 | * LargeHam: He's mostly composed if not triggered but when he hams it up, he does so with gusto. |
| 281 | * LegionOfDoom: He wants to gather up a couple of "indexed" individuals in order to combat S.H.I.E.L.D. and recover his daughter. Given he's snatched up by Gordon in the same episode and his entire team is captured, it's unlikely this effort will go anywhere. |
| 282 | * LoveRedeems: What ultimately spared him from being executed because of his crimes is his love for his daughter. |
| 283 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: With Jiaying. She's led the Inhumans for generations, he's just an ordinary human. |
| 284 | * MoralityPet: Starting in "The Frenemy of My Enemy", he has one in his daughter Daisy, who helps him rediscover the NiceGuy that he used to be. |
| 285 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He's a certified M.D. who will casually slaughter a room full of people with a scalpel in order to further his ends. |
| 286 | * MoralityChain: Spending time with his wife and daughter does wonder for his mental stability. He doesn't want them to think he's a monster. |
| 287 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: He plans to do this to Coulson since he resents him being a [[ParentalSubstitute father figure to Skye]]. |
| 288 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Skye comes across the scene of one of his outbursts, he realizes she will never accept him as her father after [[MoralEventHorizon that]]. |
| 289 | -->'''Skye:''' He's a…!\ |
| 290 | '''Cal:''' ''[[TheseHandsHaveKilled (Staring at his hands)]]'' …'''monster'''! ''[smashes his tablet]'' |
| 291 | * NeverMyFault: He blames Coulson for driving Skye away, even though it's his violent behavior that actually does it. After reuniting with his wife in Lai Xi, he admits that, yes, it is his fault. |
| 292 | * NiceGuy: He used to be one of these and you can still see glimpses of it in his calmer periods. For example, what was he doing in China with a family? He was volunteering for Doctors Without Borders, fell in love, and relocated. |
| 293 | * NoNameGiven: His first significant role in the plot (with significant screentime) is in the episode "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E5AHenInTheWolfHouse A Hen In The Wolf House]]", but he is still just referred to as "Skye's father" or "The Doctor". In "What They Become", his name is given as Cal. His full name is revealed to be Calvin L. Johnson in "The Frenemy Of My Enemy", though he mentions changing it to something more appropriate (presumably Zabo) after Skye went missing. |
| 294 | * NotHelpingYourCase: He doesn't want Skye to see him as a monster, but his violent behavior and all the killing he does despite her protests don't do him any favors. |
| 295 | * OmnicidalManiac: He casually expresses an interest in killing "everyone" and takes a thrill in the violence that can unfold. |
| 296 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Until "What They Become", he's simply referred to as "Skye's father" or "The Doctor". |
| 297 | * OneManArmy: Several sources have stated that he wiped out a village single-handedly, and if you believe Ward's version of the events, all those villagers were HYDRA agents. |
| 298 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Took Coulson's slaying of Whitehall very badly, as it meant that he couldn't avenge his wife's death personally. It's a JustifiedTrope as his plans for killing Whitehall were much, much crueler than Coulson's InstantDeathBullet, and he'd been planning it for ''decades''. |
| 299 | * PapaWolf: |
| 300 | ** In a rather negative way, considering he's both possessive and insane. |
| 301 | ** If Ward's to be believed, the village in Hunan that was slaughtered contained HYDRA agents that kidnapped Skye and her mother. The mother was killed by Whitehall before or during Cal's massacre, explaining his unstable behavior in the present. |
| 302 | * PetTheDog: |
| 303 | ** All of his direct interactions with Skye when he gets to show off his BumblingDad side. |
| 304 | ** When he's asked if Coulson is trustworthy (after they tried to kill each other), he says he hates him… but grudgingly admits that he's a good man who cares for Skye. |
| 305 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: According to Raina, he and Skye's mother destroyed an entire village to find their daughter. |
| 306 | * PsychoSerum: He attributes his strength and personality issues to a formula he developed. He's been trying to perfect it, but that doesn't happen until the end of the second season. |
| 307 | * PunnyName: His name is '''Cal'''vin '''L.''' Johnson. Not unlike [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kal-El]]. Doubles as an ActorAllusion, due to Kyle [=MacLachlan=] having played Superman in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheNewFrontier''. |
| 308 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: While he is still the father of Quake in the comics, he started out as a villain to Thor and the Hulk before becoming a villain of the week to multiple heroes. Here, he is an antagonist to S.H.I.E.L.D.. |
| 309 | * SadisticChoice: When your wife is trying to kill your daughter, either choice is going to be painful. Cal sides with his daughter, breaking his wife's neck and then crushing her ribcage to splinters with a super-strong bearhug. |
| 310 | * SanitySlippage: Finding the corpse of his wife after Whitehall vivisected her and losing his daughter sent him off the deep end. |
| 311 | * SanityStrengthening: Reuniting with his wife and daughter, and taking a break from his serum, makes him more stable. He even catches himself when he starts losing his temper. |
| 312 | * SplitPersonality: There are at least two sides to Cal. An affable side and an AxCrazy side that kills without warning. Raina believes so, even going as far as to tell him that the other side is controlling him. When some of Team Coulson, and more specifically Skye, find his handiwork, Cal is mortified, calling himself a monster. He doesn't want to be perceived as one. This is fitting, as he's [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Mister Hyde]]. |
| 313 | * SuperStrength: He carves up anyone who pisses him off with a ''scalpel'', with complete ease, and kills with his bare hands. He also easily defeats Raina, who herself demonstrates superhuman strength post-transformation. |
| 314 | * StylisticSuck: The name he gives his LegionOfDoom, comprised of various Indexed criminals, is "Slicing Talons". It's pretty much cringe-worthy to anyone who hears it, but to be fair to him, he ''did'' have to think of the name on the spot while trying to kill Coulson, and the person closest to him at the time was Karla, with her, well, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin slicing talons]]''. |
| 315 | * ThrowTheDogABone: |
| 316 | ** He will never see his family again afterward, but Skye agrees to have one family dinner with him at her mother's request. |
| 317 | ** His ending. He gets a new peaceful life, and to be happy… and Skye visits him, even though he no longer recognizes her. |
| 318 | * TragicMonster: He might be a jerk, but Cal's life is one big sad story. He was nothing but a loving family man until Whitehall kidnapped Jiaying, vivisected her, and tossed her corpse in the woods. He stitched her back up and her HealingFactor did the rest, but she left him because she [[HeelRealization became horrified by their desperate actions while looking for Skye]]. He then spent decades looking for Skye, as he'd promised Jiaying that he'd find her. But the serum he developed to give him SuperStrength made him psychotic with uncontrollable aggression, turning him into "a monster" and causing him to be shunned by the Inhumans, who used to be his friends. And when he does find Skye, she wants nothing to do with him, and his own wife has him locked up. And then he's ultimately forced to admit his wife has become a monster even worse than he is, who will destroy the world, and he has to kill her to save their daughter's life. |
| 319 | * UndyingLoyalty: In his own words, he would "blindly follow Jiaying into a war". It turns out, however, that his ultimate loyalty lies with his daughter as he turns on his wife when Coulson manages to convince him that her war will ultimately destroy Daisy. |
| 320 | * UngratefulBastard: He's furious at Coulson for killing Whitehall before he could get his revenge, even though Whitehall would have killed him if Coulson hadn't intervened. |
| 321 | * UnnamedParent: Until the mid-season 2 finale, he simply went by "The Doctor". He reveals his name to be Cal in "What They Become". Though his last name isn't revealed, it can be inferred from his personality issues, strength, and Skye's real name that his full name is Calvin Zabo, a.k.a. Mister Hyde. |
| 322 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He brought back Jiaying to life and in doing so unleashed a bloodbath upon the world. |
| 323 | * UsedToBeMoreSocial: He was a doctor, successful/wealthy enough to own an office building in a financially successful part of town, and volunteered in China with Doctors Without Borders, where he fell in love with and married a native, started a family… Now he's a walking BerserkButton. |
| 324 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Cal was a compassionate doctor who adored his family, but the tragedy of losing his daughter and his wife's vivisection drove him to concoct a serum to increase his strength, as he felt he'd failed to protect his family. The serum drove him insane, and he's been a victim of manipulations from his wife and his own mental illness ever since. |
| 325 | * {{Yandere}}: Father-Daughter love in this case, but it's still a creepy obsession that involves killing the competition (in this case, Coulson, the ParentalSubstitute). |
| 326 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Coulson tells him this to convince him to end his rampage. |
| 327 | -->'''Coulson:''' I'm not saying Jiaying is a monster, you already know that. What I am saying is, you're not. |
| 328 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: He coldly washes his hands of Raina after her and Skye's transformation, telling her to kill herself if she truly "can't live" with her new form. |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | [[folder:Eli Morrow]] |
| 332 | !!''Elias "Eli" Morrow'' |
| 333 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/morrow_eli.jpeg]] |
| 334 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"The Darkhold has shown me the way. I can create life, even after death. Can a petty thief do that, huh?"'']] |
| 335 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 336 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 337 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Momentum Labs (formerly), Chinatown Crew |
| 338 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JoseZuniga |
| 339 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 340 | |
| 341 | -->''"From high school to grad school, no one believed in me! They thought I was cheating. They thought I wasn't capable! Shut me out. Well, guess what ... guess what I'm capable of now. I can create a city out of nothing, or I can cover it in volcanic rock. Robbie, I am becoming a god".''\ |
| 342 | |
| 343 | Uncle of Robbie and Gabe Reyes, Eli was an engineer brought in to work with Lucy Bauer on their project when he became aware of the Darkhold. |
| 344 | ---- |
| 345 | * AbusiveParent: He raised Robbie and Gabe Reyes like his own children, and while there's no evidence that he was ever violent towards them before his time in prison, after getting his powers he doesn't hesitate to torture Robbie by materializing carbon spikes in his body when he finds out he's the Ghost Rider. He's also perfectly willing to detonate a plutonium bomb to kill everyone in Los Angeles, not caring that Gabe might be among the victims. |
| 346 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: Not that Eli Morrow was stupid in the comics, but his MCU version is an EvilGenius with a PHD in engineering who was involved in the making of the Quantum Particle Generators and can build a plutonium bomb on his own. |
| 347 | * AdaptationalJobChange: Before his death, Eli Morrow was a hitman for the Russian Mafia in the comics. In the MCU, he was an engineer at Momentum Labs. |
| 348 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Uncle Elias Morrow is still a criminal, but his crime was aggravated manslaughter, and he truly cared about his coworkers who died. In ''All-New Ghost Rider'', he's a Satanist EvilUncle who acts as Robbie's SuperpoweredEvilSide instead of a genuine Spirit of Vengeance. Subverted later on, when it turns out that he was the one who killed them in an attempt to claim the power for himself. Still, he isn't nearly as bad as his comic counterpart, and he is at least partly [[BrainwashedAndCrazy corrupted]] by [[TomeOfEldritchLore the Darkhold]]. |
| 349 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: |
| 350 | ** Inverted. He has nothing to do with Robbie's resurrection as Ghost Rider in this version. |
| 351 | ** In the comics, Eli also caused Gabe's disability by pushing his mother down the stairs while she was pregnant with him. In the MCU, he is not directly responsible for Gabe's condition (Gabe was shot by thugs looking for Eli, but Eli didn't mean for that to happen). |
| 352 | * AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, Eli Morrow is a Satanist who is proficient in dark magic and his soul can empower people, such as turning Robbie into a Ghost Rider and Gabe into a demonic creature. In the MCU, he has nothing to do with Robbie's powers but he's granted the power of matter manipulation, similar to Molecule Man. |
| 353 | * AffablyEvil: After he's revealed to be a power-hungry maniac, he warns Coulson to get away as quickly as possible as he prepares to begin the process of acquiring his god-like power, and later, after he suffocates a complaining underling by creating diamonds inside of his lungs, he tells the others that they might want to cut him open to get the rest of them. |
| 354 | * ApologeticAttacker: In "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", Eli is at least somewhat sorry about attacking his nephew. |
| 355 | * ArcVillain: Of the ''Ghost Rider'' arc in Season 4, because he was the one who ghostified the other scientists in an effort to obtain god-like power. It was this conflict that led to Robbie becoming the latest Ghost Rider. However, he has nothing to do with the Watchdogs' Inhuman hunt. |
| 356 | * BadBoss: If you complain about working conditions or paycheck, he will create diamonds from the air in your lungs until you suffocate. |
| 357 | * BeardOfEvil: He has a goatee and turns out to be EvilAllAlong. |
| 358 | * BerserkButton: He doesn't take it well when Coulson tells him that he's nothing more than a petty thief. |
| 359 | * BigBadEnsemble: Serves as the main antagonist of Season Four's ''Ghost Rider'' arc, in the forefront of the growing threat of the Watchdogs, as well as Radcliffe and [=AIDA=]. |
| 360 | * BondVillainStupidity: Despite literally having the power to kill people without lifting a finger, Eli never tries to kill Coulson when he comes to his lair to confront him in "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", not even when he starts insulting him. |
| 361 | * BoobyTrap: Eli has installed a trap at the entrance of his lair by covering the walls with cesium and dripping water on the floor so that his enemies will spray water on the cesium when they step inside, which will ignite it and incinerate them all. Yo-Yo activates the trap when she enters to perform a recon, fortunately she's fast enough to escape from the flames. |
| 362 | * CompositeCharacter: The comic books Eli Morrow (sans the devil-worshipping) with the powers of Owen Reece, the Molecule Man. |
| 363 | * BreakingOldTrends: Eli Morrow is the first ArcVillain in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' not to be affiliated with HYDRA or to have become a villain because of their actions. |
| 364 | * CreatingLife: As he reveals to Robbie and later to Coulson, his ultimate goal is to expand his powers to the point of being able to create life, though he dies before he gets there. |
| 365 | * DecompositeCharacter: He's still Robbie Reyes' EvilUncle like in the comics, but his role as the spirit that empowers Robbie and urges him to kill criminals has been given to the Spirit of Vengeance. |
| 366 | * DidntSeeThatComing: |
| 367 | ** During his time in prison, Eli heard rumors about the fire-headed vigilante called the Ghost Rider who punishes criminals in violent ways, but he never thought it would turn out to be his own nephew Robbie Reyes. |
| 368 | ** He certainly didn't expect Agent Coulson to still be alive after he was seemingly disintegrated by the blast caused by the Quantum Particle Generator when he got his powers. |
| 369 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: While the legitimate main antagonist of the ''Ghost Rider'' arc, he subsequently only lasts a third of the way through season four before being killed by Robbie. |
| 370 | * DontTouchItYouIdiot: He says this to Robbie when he sees that he has entered his lair and is approaching the core of his plutonium bomb. |
| 371 | -->'''Eli:''' Don't touch that! |
| 372 | * DraggedOffToHell: Ghost Rider engulfs him in flames and drags him to a dimension that may or may not be literal Hell, but it is still a really nasty place. |
| 373 | * TheDreaded: Seeing him kill people remotely by materializing stuff through their bodies is enough to intimidate the Chinatown Crew into submitting to him without question, and makes Director Mace unwilling to send S.H.I.E.L.D. agents after him until they have found a way to counteract his powers. |
| 374 | * DrunkOnTheDarkSide: After Eli gets his powers, he starts developing a god complex and killing people for petty reasons, with Coulson accusing him of being Drunk With Power. |
| 375 | -->'''Coulson:''' You're drunk on power, or drinking your own Kool-Aid, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs drunk on Powerade]]... I don't know. |
| 376 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: His reason for trying to become a god. He feels like he's been looked down on and belittled his entire life, particularly by the others at Momentum Labs. |
| 377 | * ElementalBarrier: After mastering carbon creation, Eli materializes a wall of carbon behind him as he leaves the power plant to prevent S.H.I.E.L.D. from following him. |
| 378 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Both Robbie and Gabe loved him like a father, though that was before knowing how evil he truly is. Once Robbie finds out, he has nothing but hatred for him and makes it his mission to kill him. |
| 379 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He raised Robbie and Gabe, and genuinely loves them. When he learns that the drive-by which crippled Gabe was a hit attempt meant for him, he's legitimately horrified, though he insists that it's the Bauers' fault. He also offers Robbie the chance to join him, but when he doesn't, Eli doesn't hesitate to start making carbon pop out of Robbie, [[SubvertedTrope showing that as much as he loves Robbie, he wants power more]]. |
| 380 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He may want godlike power, but he does care who he hurts to get it. Killing his coworkers is one thing, but he objects to endangering thousands of innocent lives and warns Coulson to run as he starts up the experiment that will give him powers. |
| 381 | * EvilAllAlong: At first, Eli seems like a decent guy who wanted to help his coworkers. However, at the end of the episode "The Good Samaritan" he is revealed to be the one who really tried to kill his coworkers and turned them into ghosts, all because he was after the Darkhold to get the powers of a god. |
| 382 | * EvilGenius: Eli is a brilliant scientist capable of building machines as complex as Quantum Particle Generators or plutonium bombs. |
| 383 | * EvilUncle: Like in the comics, Eli Morrow is the uncle of Robbie and Gabe Reyes and turns out to be a cruel and power-hungry murderer. |
| 384 | * {{Expy}}: His powers are similar to those of the Molecule Man. |
| 385 | * FinalBoss: Although Lucy Bauer appeared to be the main villain for the majority of the ''Ghost Rider'' story arc in Season 4, she is ultimately killed in "The Good Samaritan" and replaced by Eli Morrow, who becomes the villain of the story arc's final two episodes. |
| 386 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Eli's motivation to become a god is because he's sick of being treated like a nobody. |
| 387 | * FunctionalMagic: The "god-like power" he gains from the Darkhold is similar to the sorcery used by Kamar-Taj sorcerers in that it works by taking energy from other dimensions through a force of will. However, his is based on creating matter instead of simply using the energy which has the side effect of creating quakes. |
| 388 | * GemstoneAssault: After gaining a good enough grasp on his powers, Eli can materialize diamonds in people's bodies to kill them, which he does to one of his henchmen for complaining about not getting paid. |
| 389 | * GodhoodSeeker: Eli wants to play God by using the Darkhold. He is [[VillainousBreakdown not pleased]] when Coulson explains that all the power did was turn him into an inter-dimensional thief. |
| 390 | * HijackedByGanon: For the first six episodes of the season, {{Canon Foreigner}}s Lucy and Joseph Bauer seem to be the main villains of the ''Ghost Rider'' story arc. However, at the end of the episode "The Good Samaritan", Eli Morrow is revealed to be the true villain who caused his coworkers to turn into ghosts and was seeking the powers of the Darkhold all along. |
| 391 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the end, Eli gets pushed into the core of the plutonium bomb he himself created where he gets harmed by the radiation, and ends up being dragged along with it into the dimension from which the matter came. |
| 392 | * HowDoIShotWeb: Upon obtaining his powers, Eli seems to only be able to create carbon. However, he later starts training with his powers and learns to produce elements more complex. |
| 393 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: He is a gifted scientist who worked hard for years in the name of recognition, only to be snubbed and accused of lying. Enter Plan B, the Darkhold. |
| 394 | * IRejectYourReality: He is too stubborn to listen to any of Coulson's attempts to explain that he's not really able to create matter out of nothing but only to steal it from another dimension, which has the consequence of causing seismic rifts. Even though some earthquakes can be felt all around him, Eli dismisses this as mere theory and refuses to listen to reason up to the end. |
| 395 | * KidnappedScientist: At the end of the episode "Lockup", Eli gets captured by Lucy Bauer because she needs his scientific knowledge to recreate the experiment that could return her to her human form. |
| 396 | * KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: In "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", Coulson calls him out on trying to kill his own nephew Robbie Reyes by stabbing him with carbon spikes. Eli defends himself by saying that they both know how dangerous he truly is. |
| 397 | -->'''Coulson:''' How could you do that to your own nephew?\ |
| 398 | '''Eli:''' You know he's more than that. What he's capable of. |
| 399 | * LastChanceToQuit: Upon seeing his nephew Robbie in his lair, he tries to convince him to leave. As Robbie doesn't listen and starts turning into Ghost Rider, Eli creates carbon spikes to impale him and reminds him that he was given a chance to leave, so now everything that happens to him is his own fault. |
| 400 | * LongGame: Eli has been manipulating things even before the years he spent in prison to get hold of the Darkhold and obtain godly powers. May even suspects that he was the one who tricked the Chinatown Crew into freeing Lucy from her Quantum Battery at the start of Season 4 because he was hoping that she would eventually lead him to the Darkhold. |
| 401 | -->'''Eli:''' Took a lot longer than I had hoped, but… all those years in jail, I had to plan very carefully. |
| 402 | * MakingASplash: Once he has developed his powers, Eli becomes capable of creating compound elements like water. At one point, he fills a glass with water in front of Robbie to show off what he can do, but Robbie is hardly impressed. |
| 403 | * ManOnFire: He is last seen having his entire body engulfed in flames by Ghost Rider before they're both dragged into another dimension. |
| 404 | * MarriedToTheJob: Before the incident that landed him in jail, Eli was apparently a pretty hard worker. In a flashback, Robbie mentioned to his brother that their uncle spends so much of his time working that he doesn't even have time to enjoy life anymore. |
| 405 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Although no one refers to him as a 'doctor' in-universe, he has a [=PhD=] (in Engineering) and turns out to be evil. |
| 406 | * MotiveRant: Delivers a fairly sympathetic one about the constant institutionalized racism he faced as a Latino scientist. |
| 407 | * MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: He claims to be able to continue his work even dead, which is why he's willing to have his plutonium bomb explode and kill everyone including himself. Thankfully, S.H.I.E.L.D. manages to put a stop to his plans. |
| 408 | -->'''Eli:''' The Darkhold has shown me the way. I can create life, even after death! |
| 409 | * NeverMyFault: When Robbie calls him out on his actions, he attempts to blame everything on the Bauers, claiming they started it all. |
| 410 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Not seen, but he is said to have beaten Joseph Bauer so badly that he ended up in a coma. |
| 411 | * NoConservationOfEnergy: The whole purpose of the experiments at Momentum Labs was to find a way to create matter out of nothing. Eli thinks that he has achieved this when he gets his powers, [[SubvertedTrope but it turns out that the matter actually comes from the quantum energy of another dimension]]. |
| 412 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: When Robbie accuses Eli of being a killer, he replies that it runs in the family. |
| 413 | * NukeEm: With his newfound powers, Eli creates a nuclear device powerful enough to destroy half of Los Angeles in order to force S.H.I.E.L.D. to keep their distance. As it turns out, he's actually planning to let the bomb go off in order to eliminate all the city's inhabitants and replace them with a new life created by himself. Fortunately, Aida manages to get rid of it by sending it to another dimension. |
| 414 | * OffingTheAnnoyance: At the beginning of "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", Eli kills one of his henchmen by filling his lungs with diamonds because he was tired of hearing him complain about not being paid. |
| 415 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Although we do see a flashback scene of him forcing Lucy into the Quantum Particle Generator, we don't get to see how he managed to overpower Frederick, Hugo and Vincent to do the same to them, nor do we see him beat Joseph into a coma. |
| 416 | * OmnicidalManiac: At first, S.H.I.E.L.D. assumes that the plutonium bomb Eli created is just a failsafe, but Coulson eventually realizes to his horror that Eli is planning to use it to wipe out the entire population of Los Angeles and replace it with a new life of his own making. |
| 417 | * OneManArmy: After obtaining his powers, one of the first things Eli does is to kill an entire squad of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in an instant by materializing carbon shards through their bodies. This makes Mace and Coulson realize how dangerous he is and makes them reluctant to send other agents after him out of fear that they'll suffer the same fate. |
| 418 | * OpportunisticBastard: When Eli gets captured by Lucy Bauer and is forced to use the Darkhold to recreate the experiment that will return her to her human form, he takes the opportunity to use the Darkhold to complete the Quantum Particle Generator and use it on himself to obtain the powers of a god. |
| 419 | * PapaWolf: Subverted. When Lucy calls him out on beating her husband into a coma, Eli justifies himself by saying that Joseph hired the thugs who shot his nephews and caused Gabe to lose the use of his legs. However, it's later made clear that the true reason he assaulted Joseph was to make him reveal where he hid the Darkhold. |
| 420 | * ParentalSubstitute: He raised Robbie and Gabe, with Robbie even saying that they saw him as a father. |
| 421 | * PetTheDog: Before activating the Quantum Particle Generator to obtain the power to create matter in "The Good Samaritan", he at least tries to warn Coulson that staying would be a bad idea. |
| 422 | * RealityWarper: After using the machine on himself with five of the six quantum power cells hooked up to it, Eli gains the ability to create matter out of nothing. He demonstrates this by generating spikes of carbon from within the bodies of four S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and creating an entire wall of it in seconds. It's later revealed he's pulling matter/energy from a different dimension, rather than out of nothing per se. |
| 423 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation. In the comics, Eli is revealed to be Robbie's and Gabe's paternal uncle. In the MCU, he's the brother of their mother. |
| 424 | * SmugSnake: Upon obtaining the power to create matter, Eli believes that he has become an all-powerful god and has everything under control. However, as Coulson points out, Eli actually doesn't understand much about the situation as his powers only allow him to channel matter from another dimension, which is starting to have serious consequences. |
| 425 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: Played with in that he's introduced as alive when his comic book counterpart was already dead and had become an evil spirit. Then he is torched and dragged off to Hell by Ghost Rider in "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics". |
| 426 | * TheStarscream: When he was working for Joseph and Lucy Bauer, Eli realized that they were planning to use the Darkhold to obtain godly powers, so he decided to betray them and tried to kill them in order to have these powers for himself. |
| 427 | * TeamKiller: He is revealed to be the one who tried to kill all the members of his team at Momentum Labs, having beaten Joseph into a coma and trapped the others in Quantum Batteries which turned them into ghosts. |
| 428 | * ThatLiarLies: |
| 429 | ** When confronted by Robbie in "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics", Eli angrily claims that the Bauers caused the whole situation because of their lies. |
| 430 | --->'''Eli:''' It was the Bauers! Joe and Lucy! They started this! They lied! |
| 431 | ** He refuses to believe Coulson when he explains to him that the matter he's conjuring up comes from another dimension, and accuses him of being a liar. |
| 432 | --->'''Eli:''' You're lying. |
| 433 | * VillainousBreakdown: Eli loses his cool when Coulson tells him that his powers aren't godly and that he's essentially nothing more than a thief. |
| 434 | * WhoAreYou: Naturally, he asks this to Agent Coulson when he comes to meet him at the prison to question him about Momentum Labs. |
| 435 | -->'''Eli:''' Who the hell are you? |
| 436 | * WhosLaughingNow: As Eli explains to Robbie, the main reason he became a villain was because no one ever gave him any respect no matter how hard he worked, especially at the Momentum Labs. He considers that Joseph Bauer and his other coworkers entirely deserved what he did to them for the condescending way they treated him. |
| 437 | * WhyWontYouDie: |
| 438 | ** Downplayed, but he expresses surprise that Robbie is still alive despite the radiation from his plutonium bomb and the carbon spike that is piercing his heart. |
| 439 | --->'''Eli:''' Between the radioactive plutonium, and the quantum energy fields bombarding you, and the carbon spike... a normal person would have been dead 10 times over... |
| 440 | ** Eli is also quite confused when he sees Coulson alive and well when he thought he had died from the blast caused by the activation of the Quantum Particle Generator that gave him his powers. |
| 441 | --->'''Eli:''' Agent Coulson? You should be dead...\ |
| 442 | '''Coulson:''' I get that a lot. Never gets old, though. It means I'm still here.\ |
| 443 | '''Eli:''' How? I watched you get vaporized! |
| 444 | * WouldHitAGirl: In a flashback scene, Eli brutally smacks Lucy before forcing her into the Quantum Particle Generator in an attempt to kill her. |
| 445 | * YoureInsane: He calls both Joseph and Lucy insane upon finding out that they're planning to use the Darkhold to obtain the power to create matter. |
| 446 | -->'''Eli:''' ''[To Lucy]'' You're just as insane as [Joseph] is! |
| 447 | [[/folder]] |
| 448 | |
| 449 | [[folder:Davos]] |
| 450 | !!''Davos'' |
| 451 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_davos.jpg]] |
| 452 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"The way to K'un-Lun is open, and there's no one guarding the pass. There will be consequences for this, brother".'']] |
| 453 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human (formerly), Human |
| 454 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' K'un-Lunan |
| 455 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Order of the Crane Mother (formerly), Rhyno's Gang (formerly) |
| 456 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SachaDhawan |
| 457 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 458 | |
| 459 | The son of Lei-Kung and Danny's childhood friend. |
| 460 | ---- |
| 461 | * AgeLift: In the comics, Davos was the ChildhoodFriend of Danny's ''father'' Wendall Rand, not Danny, whom he's about twenty years older than, and his rivalry with Danny is a case of RevengeByProxy. |
| 462 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: Probably the most archetypal example of this in the MCU, and ticks virtually all the boxes for the trope. In Season 2, [[spoiler:he steals the Iron Fist, believing he is the worthy one]], and then not only uses his combat skills to outright murder people (feeling he is helping to clean up crime), but starts a dojo with the intention of schooling disciples in these very same principles. |
| 463 | * AxCrazy: While initially partnering up with him, Joy and Walker both quickly come to the realization that Davos is ''dangerously'' unstable in his mission to claim the Iron Fist and carry out his crusade against injustice. What starts off as basic vigilantism against random Triad members quickly turns into a serial murder spree as he begins to indiscriminately kill insignificant chop-shop runners, pickpockets, and eventually even innocent people who simply wanted to stay out of having to pick a side. |
| 464 | * BackToBackBadasses: Frequently, with Danny. |
| 465 | * BadassNormal: He doesn't have the power of the Iron Fist. Just the same training Danny received from Lei-Kung. |
| 466 | * BadassInANiceSuit: In the first season, he's dressed in the same ratty garments very much like Danny was at the start of the series, one step short of being a BarefootLoon himself. Come season 2, he switches to a sleek black casual business suit and expensive coat. Also counts as an EvilCostumeSwitch. |
| 467 | * BaldOfEvil: Big Bad of Season 2 and has a shaved head typical of Shaolin Monk. |
| 468 | * BashBrothers: With Danny. They may disagree on almost everything, but there can be no denying that the two are deadly together. |
| 469 | * BigBad: Forms a BigBadEnsemble with Joy Meachum and Mary Walker for ''Iron Fist'' Season 2, becoming the bigger threat [[spoiler:once he obtains the Iron Fist and both Joy and Mary break their ties with him]]. |
| 470 | * CainAndAbel: The Cain to Danny's Abel. They are not blood-related but were raised in K'un-Lun together and regard each other as brothers. |
| 471 | * ChildhoodFriend: Danny's best friend growing up in K'un-Lun. |
| 472 | * TheChosenWannabe: He wanted to be the Iron Fist, but he was not chosen. |
| 473 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Throughout the first two seasons he is never once referred to as the Steel Serpent, though the name is alluded to when he gets a '''serpent''' tattooed on his chest, insisting it to be done with '''steel''' Tebori needles. |
| 474 | * ConflictKiller: Once he [[spoiler:steals the Iron Fist from Danny]], he starts killing TriadsAndTongs left and right, which forces the two rival factions to put aside their differences in order to protect themselves from Davos. [[spoiler:With Colleen's urging, this ultimately results in a permanent truce even after Davos has been stopped]]. |
| 475 | * TheCynic: Has seen just enough of the world to think it isn't worth saving. |
| 476 | * DeadpanSnarker: “Wow, you're the worst Iron Fist ever”. |
| 477 | * DualWielding: Like the 1948 Iron Fist, Davos is able to use the fist with both hands after he gains it in Season 2. |
| 478 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:He steals the Fist from Danny in Season 2 through a ritual]]. |
| 479 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He finds killing animals for sustenance disgraceful, hence why he's a vegetarian. |
| 480 | * EvilBrit: He's from K'un-Lun, and Sacha Dhawan uses his natural British accent. He's half-Indian by his mother's side, but neither she or her husband have English accents. |
| 481 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: In Season Two, he's introduced wearing a suit instead of the old shirt he wore while trying to get Danny to come back to K'un-Lun. |
| 482 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 483 | ** Very easy to compare to Mordo from ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}''. Both are the hero's ArchEnemy in the source material, but [[AdaptationalHeroism made into the hero's allies]] when they debut in the MCU. However, both come to question the hero's irresponsibility and unorthodox methods, before eventually turning on the hero and being built up to be the next villain they face. |
| 484 | ** He is similar to Gaku Space's portrayal of Goki in Street Fighter Assassin's Fist. Being the shorter and more aggressive fighter, having a darker coloured chi and even a symbol on his back when he becomes an EmpoweredBadassNormal. |
| 485 | * FaceHeelTurn: At the end of Season 1, he decides to kill Danny for abandoning K'un-Lun and is jealous he had gotten the Iron Fist instead of him. |
| 486 | * FakeMixedRace: British Indian Sacha Dhawan has no Chinese heritage. Though this version of Davos a Kun-Lunian with a South Asian mum and East Asian Father. |
| 487 | * GoodIsNotNice: "I'm not sure this world is worth fighting for". Plus, he frequently acts as an all-around prick. |
| 488 | * GreenEyedMonster: "The Iron Fist was my birthright... You took that from me". |
| 489 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: Has nothing but contempt for food in the world outside K'un-L'un and isn't afraid to say so. When Claire introduces him to Joe's, the best pizza in New York, though, he admits it to be "not horrible". Whether he meant this in the litotical sense [[DamnedByFaintPraise or not]] is never elaborated upon. |
| 490 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Despite constantly calling Danny out to be a horrible Iron Fist and that he's unworthy of it, [[spoiler:he's even more unworthy of the mantle himself after he takes it and he quickly abuses the power he stole from Danny.]] |
| 491 | * InstantExpert: [[spoiler:After stealing the Iron Fist from Danny he has no problems learning how to summon it at will, despite Danny requiring an entire season plus ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' to do the same. Considering his fanatical obsession, this is justified]]. |
| 492 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Danny ''did'' vow to protect K'un-Lun as the Iron Fist, a promise that he broke without a word when he ran off to New York. [[spoiler:The WhamShot at the end showing that the city has vanished after being attacked by the Hand proves that he was justified in constantly chewing Danny out over this]]. |
| 493 | * KnightTemplar: |
| 494 | ** Like Lei Kung, he only sees the Hand as a mortal enemy of K'un-Lun that must be destroyed and has no compunctions about killing any members he runs across. |
| 495 | ** In season two, [[spoiler:after stealing the Iron Fist from Danny, he decides to use its power to cut a bloody swathe through the Triads as he believes it's the best way to prove himself as a righteous warrior]]. |
| 496 | * TheLancer: Danny's polar opposite in many ways, but also among the people he trusts most and basically his right-hand man in the mission against the Hand. |
| 497 | * ThatManIsDead: How Davos justifies his motivation to [[spoiler:kill Danny]]. |
| 498 | * MrViceGuy: Inside the dojo, he and Danny were the pinnacles of discipline as children. They were quick to get into mischief once outside of it: stealing sacred wine, recklessly driving their shared donkey cart, and trying to catch glimpses of the girls in their village bathing. [[StraightEdgeEvil This is seemingly averted in his adult life, though]]. |
| 499 | * MuggleBestFriend: Well, comparatively. Danny Rand is the vaunted and legendary Iron Fist, while Davos... is just Davos. However, he is still a powerful and skilled warrior of K'un-Lun. |
| 500 | * MyBelovedSmother: His mother arguably caused most of his adult issues. |
| 501 | * NoSocialSkills: Is noticeably more prickly than Danny. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is bumping into Harold Meachum and giving him a dirty look instead of an apology. |
| 502 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: When Davos [[spoiler:steals the Iron Fist from Danny]], his crusade against evil becomes less motivated by the upholding of principles taught in K'un-Lun than just proving he is better than Danny. |
| 503 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: Literally every scene he does something alongside Danny has someone greet them with something to the effect of "Ah, the Immortal Iron Fist! And... who are you?" despite the fact Davos is a brilliant martial artist and skilled warrior. This feeds into his envy. |
| 504 | * PintsizedPowerhouse: Davos is rather noticeably shorter than Danny and most of the cast for that matter. In Season 2, Ward lampshades this by lowering his hand close to the ground when referencing him. |
| 505 | * PsychopathicManchild: Davos doesn't really... ''get'' how the world works, or people for that matter. Unlike Danny, who makes an active effort to learn and understand, Davos lashes out violently against something he doesn't understand. In fact, he doesn't even make the effort to understand - it's either his way or violent and gruesome death. |
| 506 | * RaceLift: Comics Davos looks East Asian while his MCU counterpart is played by a British actor of Indian descent. This is interesting, considering how the other native inhabitants of MCU K'un Lun are shown to look East Asian. Season 2 confirms his mother was Indian. |
| 507 | * RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Danny's red. Far more reserved and stoic than his friend. Until he gets the Iron First. Then he [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumps Off the Slippery Slope]] and... well, his glowing red Fists reflect his new Red Oni status. |
| 508 | * SequelAdaptationIconicVillain: While the Hand are not minor villains in the comics, they're usually more associated with ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} than Iron Fist, making them a RoguesGalleryTransplant. Season 2 brought in Davos, who is typically regarded as Iron Fist's ArchEnemy and EvilCounterpart. |
| 509 | * ShadowArchetype: To Danny. Both were candidates to become the Iron Fist, but Davos wasn't chosen. Their ideologies are also very different, with Danny wanting more than the simple existence in K'un Lun, while Davos is fiercely loyal to the Iron Fist's duties. Danny dislikes killing even when it's his enemies, while Davos unhesitatingly does so as his first approach. |
| 510 | * SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Aside from a brief glance at the back of his head, he appeared in none of the trailers. His appearance was so spontaneous, that some people started mistaking him for Bullseye. |
| 511 | * SkilledButNaive: The way he attempted to murder [[spoiler:Bakuto]] implies that he, and perhaps even a large amount of K'un Lun's citizenry, are unaware that the only way to truly kill a high-ranking member of the Hand is to decapitate them. |
| 512 | * TheStoic: Much better at restraining and repressing his emotions than Danny. |
| 513 | * StraightEdgeEvil[=/=]TheTeetotaler: In Season 2, he tells Joy that he doesn't drink alcohol and that he regulates his diet to keep his body in top condition. |
| 514 | -->'''Joy Meachum:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Right. That's right. Yeah, you don't do anything fun]]. |
| 515 | * ThugDojo: He starts one in Season 2, mostly made up of members of Ryhno's gang. |
| 516 | * TrainingFromHell: Subjected to this, but the Thunderer wasn't nearly as much of a jerk as Stick, so he looks back on his lessons with more fondness. |
| 517 | * {{Troll}}: Makes throwing stars just to throw them at the wall near a guy's head for no discernible reason [[ItAmusedMe other than shits and giggles]]. Notice that the guy is bound, gagged, and clearly terrified for his life. On the side of good or not, Davos is a ''real'' asshole. There's also his rather mischievous behavior growing up, at least based on what Danny has to say about it. |
| 518 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: The second season of Iron Fist shows us some flashbacks of Davos as a kid. One scene showed him being beaten bloody by his mother in order to toughen him up, but the last episode shows him caring for Danny as the latter recovers from the plane crash that killed his parents, and then looking on in adorable awe as Danny makes him a paper airplane. |
| 519 | * VillainousBreakdown: At the end of Season Two, when [[spoiler:Colleen takes the Iron Fist from him]], he's reduced to a screaming wreck who [[spoiler:blindly rushes at Danny and Colleen, [[SuicideByCop begging them to end him]].]] |
| 520 | * WeCanRuleTogether: He offers [[spoiler:Danny to join him in his crusade against crime. Danny declines and it ends with him breaking Danny's leg.]] |
| 521 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Although he won't admit it, his real grudge is against his father Lei-Kung, not against Danny. He wanted his father's approval but during the fight to decide who would become the Iron Fist, Lei-Kung [[spoiler:prematurely ended the match in Danny's favor]], apparently to protect Davos (and even then it's debatable whether Lei-Kung made the right call). It's ''even worse'' with his mother, who tears him apart (emotionally) after he fails to beat Danny. |
| 522 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Is very brutal and harsh, but only because he genuinely thinks wiping out the entirety of the Hand will keep his home and people safe. After he takes the Fist from Danny in the second season, though, he moves from WIE into KnightTemplar territory. |
| 523 | [[/folder]] |
| 524 | |
| 525 | [[folder:Erik Stevens / Killmonger]] |
| 526 | -> See [[Characters/MCUErikStevens his page]] |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | [[folder:Mary [=MacPherran=] / Titania]] |
| 530 | !!''Mary [=MacPherran=] / Titania'' |
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| 535 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shehulkattorneyatlawtitania.png]] |
| 536 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Obviously. I literally said "this isn't over". So now, I'm going to publicly destroy you".'']] |
| 537 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 538 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 539 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JameelaJamil |
| 540 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' |
| 541 | |
| 542 | ->''"I am not obsessed with you. Although, it seems like everyone else is. You do not get to ruin everything for me for something that you don't even want -- something you don't even ''deserve''! So now ''I'' am forced to prove it! So GREEN UP!"''\ |
| 543 | |
| 544 | A superpowered social media influencer who possesses superhuman strength, durability, and stamina. Becomes a recurring nemesis of She-Hulk. |
| 545 | ---- |
| 546 | * AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the comics, Titania was given her powers by Doctor Doom during ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984''. Here, she appears before the ''Secret Wars'' adaptation. |
| 547 | * AdaptationalBadass: In the comics, Mary, as a supervillain, has no legitimate legal influence. This Mary, on the other hand, is apparently an influencer successful enough to get out of court, have her own company, and even trademark the "She-Hulk" name which she uses to sue Jen. |
| 548 | * AdaptationalCurves: In the comics, Titania is generally depicted as being about equally large and muscular as She-Hulk herself. Here, while she's still a StatuesqueStunner and still super-strong, she's just normal human-sized and considerably smaller and thinner than She-Hulk.... |
| 549 | * AdaptationalWimp: ..... and consequently isn't nearly as strong or tough. |
| 550 | * AdaptationalSympathy: Inverted. In the ''She-Hulk'' comics, particularly the [[{{ComicBook/SheHulk2004}} 2004]] and [[{{ComicBook/SheHulk2022}} 2022]] run, Mary is portrayed as a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who lashes out at She-Hulk in a misguided attempt to feel strong after a childhood spent sickly and bullied, and who eventually is forgiven by Jen and becomes her sparring buddy. In the show, her backstory is never shown and she has no evident sympathetic qualities. |
| 551 | * AlliterativeName: '''M'''ary '''M'''[=acPherran=]. |
| 552 | * BadInfluencer: We first see her smashing through a courthouse to escape traffic court and attacking a jury. Later she uses the name She-Hulk to sell a line of sham beauty products and get back at Jen for making her look bad. She and her lawyer even take selfies of her in court, highlighting her self-obsession. |
| 553 | * BigBadWannabe: In the first six episodes of ''She-Hulk'', she proves to be a persistent and personal foe for Jennifer, yet is also demonstrated to be all show and no go every time. Her attack on the GLK&H trial falls flat when she's immediately knocked out by Jen in one punch. However, in doing so she ends up outing Jen as She-Hulk and getting a slam-dunk conviction turned into a mistrial. After she somehow beats the rap for it, her theft of Jen's nom de guerre and the subsequent FrivolousLawsuit force Jen to humiliate herself in court in order to present the evidence necessary to win, but she still defeats her, and Titania makes it clear afterwards that her war with Jen is not over. She follows through on that by showing up to a wedding Jen was asked to appear at as a bridesmaid just to take another swing at her, and even then she totally whiffs the resulting fight by slipping on an ice cube and getting her dental veneers crushed, after which she [[PokeThePoodle lashes out at the rubberneckers laughing at her]] before leaving in a huff. By the time the Intelligencia becomes the main threat and the show takes on a darker tone, Titania is basically an afterthought. |
| 554 | * CastingGag: Jamil was a popular fancast for the role of She-Hulk for a while before Tatiana Maslany was cast. Here, she's playing She-Hulk's arch-enemy Titania. |
| 555 | * CurbStompBattle: Both of her fights with She-Hulk are landslide victories for She-Hulk - Titania had a bit of a CurbStompCushion in the second one and managed to land a couple hits because Jen had gotten absolutely shitfaced and was still metabolizing the alcohol after she transformed, but it was still a swift and humiliating loss nonetheless. |
| 556 | * DarkActionGirl: Subverted. She'd certainly ''like'' to be, but despite her powers she has no actual training or staying power, meaning that she burns out in spectacular fashion the moment someone lands a good hit on her. |
| 557 | * DisproportionateRetribution: She smashes through a courtroom's walls and attempts to kill multiple people within it... because she received a ''parking ticket''. |
| 558 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: She has a major case of the hots for [[Characters/MCUMattMurdock Daredevil]]. While in all fairness, it ''is'' [[ChickMagnet Matt Murdock]] we're talking about here, what's impressive is that she's only ever seen him in his Daredevil persona, yet is ''still'' thirsty for him. |
| 559 | * EvilIsPetty: Her introduction alone has her rampaging in a courthouse just for getting a parking ticket and nearly killing a jury that had nothing to do with that. Jen stops her, winds up losing her job for it, Titania gets away with all of that scot-free and all she can focus on is how to get back at Jen for a bit of slight embarrassment that only Titania herself cares about. Jen even lampshades this in "Just Jen", calling Titania out on holding such a grudge and that she should just let it go. Titana's response sums it up best. |
| 560 | -->'''Titania:''' I never let anything go. |
| 561 | * FieryRedhead: She has red hair and is very thin-skinned and short-tempered, going on a temper tantrum after being called into traffic court and suing Jen for copyright infringment just for stopping her and getting her arrested. |
| 562 | * GirlinessUpgrade: The Titania of the comics often wears leather, spikes and chains where this Titania wears high fashion and even dresses, something the comic Titania would never wear. |
| 563 | * GirlyBruiser: Dresses in more high fashion, more classically feminine clothes than She-Hulk (not to mention makes custom beauty products) but also has super strength and a violent temper. |
| 564 | * GlassCannon: Mary is shown to be nearly as strong She-Hulk, and fast enough to dodge her blows, but is not nearly as durable. In both their confrontations, Titania loses the fight the instant She-Hulk is able to land a solid hit. |
| 565 | * KarmaHoudini: She was somehow cleared of all charges after she destroyed government property and endangered dozens of people with her tantrum in "A Normal Amount of Rage". By the end of the series she has yet to make any believable display of contrition or even receive a proper punishment for it. |
| 566 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Every time she acts up and runs into Jen it never ends well for her. |
| 567 | ** Throws a tantrum over a parking ticket that leads to her nearly killing several people? Jen knocks her out in one punch. |
| 568 | ** Trademarks the She-Hulk name and sues Jen for copyright violation as payback for the above? Loses the case and is humiliated. |
| 569 | ** Starts a fight with Jen at Lulu's wedding to try and publicly humiliate Jen in a fight? She loses said fight, not because of She-Hulk, but because [=MacPherran=] [[EpicFail slips on ice and knocks out her own veneers]], and has said loss recorded for online viewing and is ''even'' more humiliated. |
| 570 | * {{Narcissist}}: Titania is a vain and entitled socia media influencer whose grudge against She-Hulk is grounded in how She-Hulk embarassed her in court. |
| 571 | * PlotIrrelevantVillain: Aside from her first rampage prompting Jen to reveal her powers to the world, Titania doesn't contribute much to the plot other than to provide Jen with an antagonist until the true threats of Intelligencia enter the limelight, with her petty attempts at revenge being laughably low-scale in comparison. |
| 572 | * PsychopathicWomanchild: Titania is less "supervillain-level threat" and more "AlphaBitch who just happens to have super strength". |
| 573 | * RaceLift: Titania was white in the comics, but she's played by an actress of Pakistani and Indian descent in the MCU. |
| 574 | * RedAndBlackAndEvillAllOver: Her outfit in the final episode and in promotional materials is a black outfit with a red fringe jacket. |
| 575 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Despite being a recurring problem for Jen, she's not presented as much of a direct threat. She-Hulk knocks her out in one punch, and in her second appearance she's reduced to petty copyright law abuse to get back at Jen. Even during her rematch with She-Hulk at the wedding, when things seem to finally be going her way, all it takes is stepping on an ice cube to make her look like a damn fool. Even Jen herself finds Titania more of an annoyance than a rival. |
| 576 | * SnakeOilSalesman: Her line of beauty products, some of which are made from ''actual'' snake oils. They are not FDA approved, and referred as "sham" products. Of course, she has thousands of people willing to testify that they totally work. |
| 577 | * StatuesqueStunner: As expected, given that she's played by the 5'10" Jameela Jamil. |
| 578 | * SuperStrength: Strong enough to smash through walls (which serves as her introduction) and effortlessly manhandle Jen, but she is clearly not as physically powerful as She-Hulk (only managing to score a few hits on her the second time around because she hadn't completely burned off the enormous quantities of alcohol she consumed as Jen) and gets stomped both times. On the physical power scale, she's roughly on par with the Raimi-Verse Green Goblin and possibly Asgardians and Kree, still very impressive, but she is far from the big leagues. |
| 579 | * ThereWasADoor: In "A Normal Amount of Rage", Mary shows up in the courtroom by busting through a wall. |
| 580 | * UnskilledButStrong: She has enough sheer strength to go up against She-Hulk but a fighter she ain't. Most of her combat strategy is just throwing out hits with no finesse or skill, compared to Jen who knows to use her strength with much more precision and strategy. |
| 581 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Titania's tantrum resulted in Jen Walters getting fired from the District Attorney office. |
| 582 | * VillainHasAPoint: During a MotiveRant about why she has it out for Jen, Titania accurately points out that Jen doesn't even want to be She-Hulk or have any of the surrounding publicity connected to the identity. |
| 583 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: She has enough of a good public image that there is a ‘#[=FreeTitania=]’ movement wanting her released from her charges related to a parking violation and rampage which resulted in a fight with Jennifer. |
| 584 | [[/folder]] |
| 585 | |
| 586 | !!!Humans with enhanced technology |
| 587 | |
| 588 | [[folder:Quentin Beck / Mysterio]] |
| 589 | -> See [[Characters/MCUMysterio Mysterio]] |
| 590 | [[/folder]] |
| 591 | |
| 592 | [[folder:The Wrecking Crew]] |
| 593 | !!''The Wrecking Crew'' |
| 594 | |
| 595 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_2112_2.jpeg]] |
| 596 | |
| 597 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]] |
| 598 | !!!'''Species:''' Humans |
| 599 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Americans |
| 600 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Nick Gomez (Wrecker), Justin Eaton (Thunderball), Tennison Barry III (Bulldozer), Kyle Murillo (Piledriver) |
| 601 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' |
| 602 | |
| 603 | A group of four goons wielding enhanced construction tools as weapons. |
| 604 | ---- |
| 605 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the comics, the Wrecker was given his powers by Karnilla the Norn Queen, an ally of Loki, and later shared his powers with the other three members of the Wrecking Crew after excaping from prison together. Here, they're just street criminals who robbed an Asgardian construction worker. |
| 606 | * AdaptationalWimp: Unlike in the comics, they lack superhuman strength or other innate abilities and are completely dependent on their stolen Asgardian Gear. And even then, they're curbstomped by Jennifer Walters who doesn't even identify as a superhero. |
| 607 | ** This is especially true regarding Wrecker who even without his crowbar possessed superhuman strength and eventually mastered the magic within to transform the other members into their superpowered forms. Neither does he seem able to use any of his crowbar's secondary powers like remote guidance and energy blasts. |
| 608 | * AgeLift: In the comics, the men are in their 30's or so. While Wrecker and Thunderball appear to be in that age range, Bulldozer and Piledriver seem barely out of their teens. |
| 609 | * CurbStompBattle: Once Jen transforms into She-Hulk, they stand absolutely no chance against her and are sent running after she makes short work of them. |
| 610 | * HeelFaceTurn: The Wrecker seems to have given up the crowbar. No word on whether or not the others did as well. However, he also didn't mention anything about what he and his boys were really doing when they attacked her, so it's not clear how much he has actually changed. |
| 611 | * MadeOfIron: Definitely not to the level of She-Hulk herself, but they are able to take hits from her that would (at minimum) knock a normal person unconscious. They may or may not have SuperStrength as well, but if they do it is also definitely not on She-Hulk's level. |
| 612 | * RaceLift: All four of them have gotten one. Most noticeable in the case of Thunderball, who has long been irritated for being known as "the Black Bruce Banner". His actor is white. |
| 613 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: Usually foes of Thor in the comics, they end up against She-Hulk instead. |
| 614 | * UseYourHead: Bulldozers' main technique, as he is wearing an Asgardian construction helmet. |
| 615 | * WeaponsOfTheirTrade: Or rather they robbed an Asgardian construction worker and end up using those tools as weapons. |
| 616 | ** CrowbarCombatant: Wrecker's main weapon. |
| 617 | ** EpicFlail: A handheld ball and chain that Thunderball uses. |
| 618 | ** PowerFist: Piledriver uses a pair of Asgardian welding gloves as opposed to just having oversized fists. |
| 619 | ** WeaponizedHeadgear: A construction helmet Bulldozer uses as a battering ram. |
| 620 | [[/folder]] |
| 621 | |
| 622 | !!!Human magic users |
| 623 | |
| 624 | [[folder:Morgan le Fay]] |
| 625 | !!''Morgan le Fay'' |
| 626 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_morgan_le_fay.png]] |
| 627 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"This world will soon be ours".'']] |
| 628 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 629 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Coven, Wizard (formerly) |
| 630 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ElizabethHurley |
| 631 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/Runaways2017'' |
| 632 | |
| 633 | A sorceress from the Dark Dimension. |
| 634 | ---- |
| 635 | * AdaptationalModesty: Downplayed. Her neckline does not reach past her navel as it did in the comics, but still shows a generous amount of cleavage. |
| 636 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: She hails from the Dark Dimension, which implies she may not be fully human, despite her appearance. |
| 637 | * AnimalMotifs: Like her comic book counterpart, she's associated with CreepyRavens. |
| 638 | * BigBad: For the latter half of Season 3, the final season. |
| 639 | * TheBully: Explicitly [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech called out as one]] by Gert. |
| 640 | * CastingAShadow: She's shown manipulating shadows, possibly the Darkforce itself. |
| 641 | * DarkIsEvil: She is associated with ravens, controls shadows, and is an EvilSorcerer. |
| 642 | * EvilBrit: Elizabeth Hurley uses her natural accent for the role. |
| 643 | * EvilMentor: Tries to be this to Nico throughout Season 3. |
| 644 | * EvilSorcerer: She tries to seduce Nico Minoru to TheDarkSide and plots to overrun Earth with her followers. |
| 645 | * HotWitch: She's a sorceress portrayed by Elizabeth Hurley. |
| 646 | * LadyOfBlackMagic: A cryptic, powerful sorceress who leads a witch coven and tempts Nico with the power of the Dark Dimension. |
| 647 | * MasterOfIllusion: Creates an illusion of Robert Minoru while trying to pry information from Nico about the Staff of One. She also uses illusions to alter a photograph in the Minoru to make it seem that both she and Tina knew each other. |
| 648 | * MsFanservice: Comes with the territory of being played by Elizabeth Hurley, especially with her outfits which highlight her buxom figure. There is even one scene where she absorbs Nico's dagger, during which the camera provides a lingering shot of her cleavage. |
| 649 | * OutOfTheFryingPan: Right after the Runaways thwart the evil machinations of the Gibborim they have to deal with her, and she [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil proves to be even more dangerous]]. |
| 650 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: In the comics, she's mostly a foe of ComicBook/TheAvengers, ComicBook/CaptainBritain, and ComicBook/DoctorDoom. |
| 651 | * SealedEvilInACan: She resides in the Dark Dimension, which Nico taps into for guidance, and thus occasionally communicates with her. After Nico casts a spell to [[spoiler:separate the Gibborim from the human hosts]], Morgan is able to escape and cause havoc in the real world. [[spoiler:Her ultimate fate is to be re-sealed away, rather than outright killed]]. |
| 652 | * TomeOfEldritchLore: She possesses the Darkhold, having [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD last been]] [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS4E22WorldsEnd seen when]] [[ComicBook/GhostRider Robbie]] [[Characters/MCUGhostRider Reyes]] dragged it through a portal to Hell (unless this is somehow a separate "copy", since this one didn't seem to drive those who read it mad). |
| 653 | * WickedWitch: She is an evil sorceress and an enemy of the Runaways. |
| 654 | [[/folder]] |
| 655 | |
| 656 | [[folder:Morgan le Fay's Coven]] |
| 657 | !!''The Coven'' |
| 658 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 659 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ScarlettByrne (Bronwyn), Emily Alabi (Cassandra) |
| 660 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/Runaways2017'' |
| 661 | |
| 662 | A group of witches subservient to Morgan. |
| 663 | ---- |
| 664 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: When Karolina spies on them, they show demonic-looking eyes and mouths, hinting they may not be actually human or that at least they are being altered in a way similar to Kaecilius's Zealots. |
| 665 | * CastingGag: This is not the first time Scarlett Byrne plays [[Film/HarryPotter an antagonistic witch]]. |
| 666 | * CoDragons: Bronwyn and Cassandra are the two Coven members most active in Morgan's plot. They also take part in the attack against the Runaways and PRIDE. |
| 667 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: The coven is composed of witches of several different ethnicities. |
| 668 | * HotWitch: All of them could very well be supermodels. |
| 669 | * InTheBack: Bronwyn [[spoiler:gets killed by Alex prior to the Runaways altering the timeline.]] |
| 670 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Unlike Bronwyn, Cassandra's fate is unknown as she doesn't take part in Morgan's attack on the Hostel. |
| 671 | * WickedWitch: They are the followers of Morgan le Fay. |
| 672 | [[/folder]] |
| 673 | |
| 674 | [[folder:Agatha Harkness]] |
| 675 | -> See [[Characters/MCUAgathaHarkness her page]] |
| 676 | [[/folder]] |
| 677 | |
| 678 | [[folder:Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch]] |
| 679 | -> See [[Characters/MCUWandaMaximoff her page]] |
| 680 | [[/folder]] |
| 681 | |
| 682 | [[folder:Bloodstone Monster Hunters]] |
| 683 | !!General |
| 684 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Werewolf by Night|2022}}'' |
| 685 | Legendary monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone and his associates. Many of these monster hunters are strangers to each other and don't meet until Ulysses' funeral. |
| 686 | ---- |
| 687 | * CreatureHunterOrganization: All of them have dedicated their lives to ridding the world of "abominations"... regardless of the monster's own morality. |
| 688 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler:Have a simple cage and tasers to keep Jack in line while he kills Elsa... and nothing else. Neither of these things work because of easily-foreseeable factors (the tasers make Jack more angry and the bars aren't sturdy enough to keep in a werewolf), Jack escapes, and starts carving a bloody swath.]] |
| 689 | * EgomaniacHunter: All of them hunt with FantasticRacism as a motive, but it’s clear they also do it for sport. |
| 690 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The hunters are willing to kill monsters mostly of how ''fun'' it is, even though the monsters in this case are friendly guys once you get to know them. |
| 691 | * MercyKill: Per Verussa, this is what the hunters think they're doing, as many of the monsters they hunt are former humans turned against their will. |
| 692 | * SuicidalOverconfidence: [[spoiler:Using the Bloodstone to turn Jack Russell into his werewolf form, seemingly just for the sport of watching him kill Elsa then killing the caged beast themselves, ends up getting every single one of them ''except Elsa'' and Billy Swan killed when he escapes.]] |
| 693 | * TooDumbToLive: Verussa, despite being married to a famed monster hunter, has the bright idea to [[spoiler:let out an EvilLaugh mere feet from the cage's bars after forcing Jack into werewolf form early. It's only thanks to the bars that only her hand is maimed.]] And then everybody present except Elsa is revealed to be this when [[spoiler:Jack breaks free and starts mauling everybody present, showing that they 1. [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't have a plan to keep Jack from turning his sights on them]] beyond having the guards electrocute him (which only makes him more angry) and 2. despite being experienced monster hunters, they underestimated a werewolf's strength.]] |
| 694 | * VanHelsingHateCrimes: The monster hunters consider all monsters to be irredeemably evil, even good ones like Jack and Ted. |
| 695 | |
| 696 | !!Ulysses Bloodstone |
| 697 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 698 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Richard Dixon |
| 699 | A legendary monster hunter and Elsa Bloodstone's late father. |
| 700 | ---- |
| 701 | * AbusiveParent: Disowned Elsa when she rejected following in his footsteps. |
| 702 | * EccentricMillionaire: After his death, Ulysses had his body converted into a [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt Cryptkeeper]]-like animatronic and used his funeral to host a monster-hunting event. |
| 703 | * FollowInMyFootsteps: Ulysses wanted Elsa to continue the Bloodstone family legacy of hunting monsters. She rejected his training, which led to her being disowned from the family. |
| 704 | * TheFunInFuneral: He tries to set up a wacky funeral for his guests, having converted his corpse into a pun-spewing animatronic. The guests aside from Verussa find it more weird and disturbing than funny, though. |
| 705 | * PosthumousCharacter: The special begins during his funeral, though he had his body reconstructed as a crank-operated animatronic. |
| 706 | * PungeonMaster: It seemed that he was quite a fan of puns in his life, considering he recorded a few groan-worthy ones for his posthumous appearance in his funeral. |
| 707 | |
| 708 | !!Verussa Bloodstone |
| 709 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 710 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Harriet Sansom Harris |
| 711 | Elsa's stepmother and the widow of Ulysses. |
| 712 | ---- |
| 713 | * BigBad: The closest to being the main antagonist of the special; leading the hunt that will determine her husband’s successor. |
| 714 | * DramaQueen: She treats everything in a grandiose, overly-dramatic fashion. |
| 715 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: Verussa is an ordinary human who is able to use the Bloodstone's magic. |
| 716 | * EvilLaugh: She lets out a wicked cackle while [[spoiler:torturing Jack with the Bloodstone's power]]. |
| 717 | * KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Verussa is melted alive by Ted, the monster she sent the hunting group to kill, and her body is thrown at Ulysses' corpse]]. |
| 718 | * VillainousBreakdown: With the other monster hunters dead and both Ted and Jack having escaped, Verussa breaks down and grabs a blunderbuss to kill Elsa herself once and for all. [[spoiler:Luckily, Ted breaks through the ceiling and kills her just in time to save Elsa]]. |
| 719 | * WickedStepmother: Verussa constantly berates Elsa and tells her what a disappointment her father considered her to be. [[spoiler:She's practically giddy to have the excuse to lock Elsa in a cage with a werewolf after she "betrays" them by working with a monster]]. |
| 720 | * YourMakeupIsRunning: Invoked. After [[spoiler:capturing Elsa and intending to make Jack kill her]], she puts heavy mascara lines down her face to resemble tear streaks. |
| 721 | |
| 722 | !!Billy Swan |
| 723 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 724 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Al Hamacher |
| 725 | The loyal Bloodstone family butler. |
| 726 | ---- |
| 727 | * OldRetainer: Billy Swan enters Elsa's service after the funeral even though Elsa and her allies killed Verussa and the other guests as well as desecrated her father's corpse. |
| 728 | |
| 729 | !!Monster Hunters |
| 730 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 731 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KirkThatcher (Jovan), Daniel J. Watts (Barasso), Leonardo Nam (Liorn), Eugenie Bondurant (Azarel) |
| 732 | A group of famous monster hunters all competing for the Bloodstone. |
| 733 | ---- |
| 734 | * AllThereInTheManual: Barasso, Jovan, Liorn, and Azarel's names are never mentioned in the film itself |
| 735 | * AnArmAndALeg: Liorn has his arm chopped off by Elsa after he attacks her. |
| 736 | * BaitTheDog: Jovan comes off as the most [[{{Pun}} jovial]] of the bunch, being the first to welcome Jack and actually engage in friendly conversation with him, even coming across as slightly endearing. Then the hunt begins, and he turns into a frothing, complete ''fucking lunatic'' going full-on AxCrazy towards anyone who crosses his path. |
| 737 | * BadassNormal: Despite being normal humans, they have killed over a hundred monsters between the four of them. |
| 738 | * BloodKnight: It's clear that all the hunters have a taste for violence and enjoy hunting and killing monsters. |
| 739 | * CanonForeigner: None of them have a comic equivalent. |
| 740 | * EarAche: Barasso gets his ear torn off by Jack after the latter transforms. |
| 741 | * HandicappedBadass: Despite losing his arm in the opening moments of their fight, Liorn still puts up a good fight against Elsa. |
| 742 | * LeanAndMean: Azarel is a gaunt and a violent monster hunter, willing to kill Elsa and Jack. |
| 743 | * LooksLikeCesare: Azarel is gaunt and pale, which is accentuated by her dark eyeliner |
| 744 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: Jovan admits that the life of a monster hunter makes him very lonely, which is one of the reasons why he's so friendly with Jack. Unfortunately, the hunt comes first, and his loneliness doesn't make him any less of an utter maniac. |
| 745 | * ViolentGlaswegian: Jovan is Scottish and a violent monster hunter. |
| 746 | |
| 747 | [[/folder]] |
| 748 | |
| 749 | !!Supernatural beings |
| 750 | |
| 751 | [[folder:Andre Deschaine / D'Spayre]] |
| 752 | !!''Andre Deschaine / D'Spayre'' |
| 753 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leaderless_villain_cloak_and_dagger_s2e9.jpg]] |
| 754 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 755 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 756 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Viking Motel Sex Traffic Ring |
| 757 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Brooklyn [=McLinn=] |
| 758 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Cloak and Dagger|2018}}'' |
| 759 | |
| 760 | A former jazz musician, altered by the same explosion that empowered Cloak and Dagger, and the leader of a community center and support group for survivors of abuse. He's secretly the leader of a sex traffic ring. |
| 761 | ---- |
| 762 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: D'Spayre, the character Andre is based on in the comics, is a demon. Andre himself is an enhanced human with a psychic connection to the Dark Dimension, and a [[UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} loa]]. |
| 763 | * AdaptationalOriginConnection: PlayedWith. In the comics, D'Spayre is the one who [[TouchedByVorlons swapped the powers of Cloak and Dagger]] in their origin. Here, he is still connected to them, but by way of having gained his powers in the same incident. |
| 764 | * AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: In the finale of Season 2, he indeed becomes a loa and transcends his mortal body to become a being in the Darkforce Dimension. |
| 765 | * BadPowersBadPeople: Similar to [[Series/JessicaJones2015 Kilgrave]], Andre's powers are inherently nasty; [[HopeCrusher completely draining the hopes of others to fill them with despair instead]] is really not an ability a heroic character could wield, and he freely uses this ability on anyone to his heart's content. |
| 766 | * BaldOfEvil: An utterly monstrous human being played by the naturally bald Brooklyn [=McLinn=]. |
| 767 | * BigBad: Of ''Cloak and Dagger'' Season 2. He is behind the human trafficking ring, abducting women to feed off of their despair. |
| 768 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: He appears to be a friendly counselor, but actually uses the support groups in the community center to find easy victims. |
| 769 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: He's the MCU counterpart of D'Spayre. |
| 770 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's never directly referred to InUniverse as "D'Spayre", though the metaphysical arcade game that Tandy and Ty play in "Two Player" (which features Andre as the FinalBoss) is called "Duel to D'Spayre". |
| 771 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To both Peter Scarborough and Detective Connors, the BigBadEnsemble of Season 1. Unlike them, he represents a single antagonist to both protagonists, and whereas Scarborough and Connors represented the {{Mundanger}} aspects of a CorruptCorporateExecutive and a racist DirtyCop, respectively, Andre is an enhanced individual who got his powers from the Roxxon oil rig explosion eight years ago, [[EvilCounterpart much like our protagonists]]. |
| 772 | * DiegeticSwitch: How his powers are represented. He has a record store in the Darkforce dimension that he accesses mentally, where he can put on records (as in [=LP=]s) of whatever emotion / memory he wants his his victim to experience. So when the scene switches back to reality that will be the background music. |
| 773 | * DisappointedByTheMotive: Tandy's reaction to his justifications for his crimes. He has to live with constant pain since the night of the explosion and couldn't play his beloved jazz music anymore. While that is terrible, it's still no excuse to make tons of people suffer for him. |
| 774 | -->'''Andre:''' [[NeverMyFault I don't cause anyone's pain.]] I understand it, feel for it, commiserate it with mine. It's the only way to tap down my migraines.\ |
| 775 | '''Tandy:''' [[LetMeGetThisStraight So this is all so]] [[DisappointedByTheMotive you can blow your horn?]] |
| 776 | * EmotionEater: He feeds off despair, which helps him aleviate his severe migraines. |
| 777 | * EvilAllAlong: Just like Lia, he is revealed to be this. |
| 778 | * EvilCounterpart: To both Ty and Tandy. Like them, he received powers when the Roxxon oil rig exploded nearly a decade ago. However, instead of using his powers to help people, he instead uses them to take away his own pain at the expense of others and seek godhood. |
| 779 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Tandy and Tyrone lock him in his own realm, forcing him to listen to the record of his own worst memories (which is intentionally scratched by Tandy), presumably forever. Considering all the pain he caused, [[LaserGuidedKarma it's very well deserved.]] |
| 780 | * FauxAffablyEvil: He puts on a NiceGuy act but is a sex traficker who feeds of despair. |
| 781 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Thanks to his powers, he goes from an ordinary jazz musician to the head of a sex trafficking ring and a near-god. |
| 782 | * GodhoodSeeker: After speaking with Chantelle, he realizes he can use his powers to attain godhood, which becomes his end goal. He actually achieves this in the finale, his mortal body dying, but [[FateWorseThanDeath probably wishes he hadn't]]. |
| 783 | * HateSink: He is [[TheReveal revealed]] to be the true BigBad of Season 2 and is written to be as loathsome as possible--creating a sex trafficking ring for girls to drain off their despair, manipulating Ty and Tandy to try and break their connections and their spirits, seeking out godhood, and murdering both Chantelle and then his most loyal accomplice are all in a day's work for him. |
| 784 | * HopeCrusher: He removes his pain by draining the despair from others, meaning he has to invoke that despair himself. This includes trafficking young women as sex slaves. |
| 785 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Andre doesn't care about the pain he causes other people, he just cares about making his own pain stop. |
| 786 | * KnightOfCerebus: Once he's revealed as the true BigBad, the series takes on a much darker tone, given that he is the man responsible [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil for a sex trafficking ring]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil to feed off human despair]] and Tandy herself nearly falls victim to a "customer" after Andre crushes her hope by convincing her Tyrone is dead]]. |
| 787 | * LackOfEmpathy: He cares about absolutely no one but himself. To him, stopping his headaches and making the pain go away so he can play music is his only goal, and [[TheUnfettered there are no limits to what he will do to achieve this]]. |
| 788 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: Whenever he's seen in the metaphysical record store he's wearing a well-tailored suit. Generally averted in the physical world, where his clothing choice is more varied and often more casual. |
| 789 | * ManipulativeBastard: Thanks to his powers, he can manipulate the feelings of others. |
| 790 | ** He succeeds in breaking Tandy's resistance and making her feel despair by showing her seemingly happy scenarios that always end in disasters, the final straw being shooting Tyrone dead. |
| 791 | ** When Tyrone is looking for the missing Tandy, Andre messes with Tyrone's head to make him believe Tandy doesn't care about him. |
| 792 | * NiceGuy: He is nice and supporting towards everybody. It's all [[BitchInSheepsClothing an act]]. |
| 793 | * SequelAdaptationIconicVillain: The titular duo's ArchEnemy in the comics and the BigBad of the show's second season, after Season One's BigBadEnsemble were both [[CanonForeigner Canon Foreigners]]. |
| 794 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: His sex trafficking ring used to fuel his powers is a key demonstration of how vile he is. |
| 795 | * TheSociopath: Ticks all the boxes. LackOfEmpathy? [[TheUnfettered Check]]. ConsummateLiar and ManipulativeBastard? Just ask his victims who came through the "support center". Pathological need for stimulation? The basis for his [[EmotionEater feedings]] on the despair of others. Grandiose sense of self-worth? [[GodhoodSeeker Oh yes]]. |
| 796 | * TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: At first glance, there's nothing out of the ordinary about him that suggests he's a supervillain, also helped by the fact that his public persona is that of a kindhearted community support worker. |
| 797 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: He convinced Lia to leave her entire life behind and help him find helpless girls to victimize. And he doesn't care about her at all, as he is perfectly willing to use his power on her too. |
| 798 | * WalkingSpoiler: If all the white spaces aren't any indication. |
| 799 | * WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: He's under the impression that helping "90%" of the women who come to his center makes up for the fact that he condemns the other 10% to a life of sex slavery. |
| 800 | * WouldHitAGirl: Most of his victims are female. |
| 801 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Tandy and Tyrone bust Andre's trafficking ring, Andre runs out of HumanResources to deal with his pain. To cope with it, he asks his accomplice, Lia, to bear with his pain. He promises to Lia that [[ExactWords it would be the last time he would make her feel pain]], and fulfills this promise by draining her, leaving her on the verge of death. No longer being of any use to him, he drops off her body by the road, leaving her for dead. |
| 802 | [[/folder]] |
| 803 | |
| 804 | !!!Darkhold Ghosts |
| 805 | |
| 806 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 807 | !!''Darkhold Ghosts'' |
| 808 | !!!'''Species:''' Humans (formerly), Ghosts |
| 809 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Americans |
| 810 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Momentum Labs |
| 811 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 812 | |
| 813 | Four scientists who were involved in an experiment involving a tome called the Darkhold. They were imprisoned for years between two dimensions, transforming them into ghostly apparitions, until one of them, Lucy Bauer, got free and released her comrades. They seek to reverse what was done to them and kill the one responsible. |
| 814 | ---- |
| 815 | * BodyHorror: These aren't the normal transparent ghosts, but more degraded and worse looking over time. |
| 816 | * CanonForeigner: They have no comic book counterparts, being new characters created for the show. |
| 817 | * DeaderThanDead: Frederick, already a ghost, is immolated by Ghost Rider's hellfire. Vincent and Hugo both die in "Lockup", followed by Lucy in "The Good Samaritan". |
| 818 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Spending years locked in boxes was apparently a terrible thing to experience, with Frederick even comparing it to Hell. |
| 819 | * ForScience: Lucy and her husband Joseph in particular were delighted by what the Darkhold could do and how it could be used to help others, but the book corrupted their intentions. |
| 820 | * FourIsDeath: There are four ghosts and they all can cause madness and death with a touch. |
| 821 | * FreakLabAccident: They all became ghost-like beings as a result of being forced into the Quantum Particle Generator while it was still incomplete. |
| 822 | * GhostlyGoals: They are trying to find the Darkhold, reverse what happened to them, and kill the one responsible for their current state. |
| 823 | * ImmuneToBullets: Mack tries several times to shoot them, but it only makes them vanish for a short time. |
| 824 | * JacobMarleyApparel: They all appear in the clothing they wore when they 'died' and bear fresh-looking wounds presumably inflicted by Eli when he forced them into the machine. |
| 825 | * MadScientist: All of them, but Lucy in particular, as she's obsessed with using a TomeOfEldritchLore to create matter out of nothing, which drives her deeper and deeper into insanity especially after she and her colleagues are transformed into ghosts. Coulson even refers to her as a "pissed-off mad scientist ghost" at one point. |
| 826 | * MadeOfAir: They exist as some form of energy which is selectively visible and tangible. Disrupting their physical form only deters them for a moment before they come back. Only Ghost Rider can grab them as if they were solid. |
| 827 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: They're villainous scientists and Lucy is referred to several times as 'doctor' by other characters. |
| 828 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: All ghosts can interact with the world around them, and anyone they touch that isn't also supernatural is driven violently insane. |
| 829 | * SealedEvilInACan: All four were sealed in special boxes by Eli Morrow. |
| 830 | * SupernaturalFearInducer: Their touch drives victims into a state of extreme paranoia and eventually causes them to die from the stress. |
| 831 | * TouchOfDeath: Anyone the ghosts manage to touch is driven violently insane. The hallucinations get more intense with time, eventually causing the victim to die when their bodies can no longer handle the stress of being constantly on-edge. |
| 832 | [[/folder]] |
| 833 | |
| 834 | [[folder:Lucy Bauer]] |
| 835 | !!''Dr. Lucy Bauer'' |
| 836 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bauer_lucy.jpg]] |
| 837 | !!!'''Species:''' Human (formerly), Ghost |
| 838 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 839 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Momentum Labs |
| 840 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Lilli Birdsell |
| 841 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 842 | |
| 843 | -->''"I had a husband I loved, work, the challenge that thrilled me, and just as everything that I'd dreamed of was within my grasp, this happened. But I'm gonna make it alright. Don't take this personally".'' |
| 844 | |
| 845 | A member of Momentum Labs who found the ancient grimoire known as the Darkhold. Experimenting with the knowledge they found within it to power their technology, Bauer and her team were trapped between two dimensions, transforming them into ghostly apparitions. Bauer herself was freed several years later and, after releasing the rest of her colleagues, set out on a personal mission to reclaim the Darkhold to restore their lives as well as get revenge on the man responsible for the experiment that caused their predicament. |
| 846 | ---- |
| 847 | * AccidentalMurder: She caused the death of her husband Joseph by touching him to wake him up from his coma so that he'd tell her where the Darkhold is hidden, but she didn't actually want him to die and later expresses regret that he's no longer alive to see her accomplish their greatest project. |
| 848 | * AintTooProudToBeg: As shown in a flashback, she tried to beg Eli not to do it when he put her in the Quantum Particle Generator, as it would most likely kill her. |
| 849 | -->'''Lucy:''' Eli, no! Please! It's not finished yet! Please don't kill me! |
| 850 | * AlasPoorVillain: Not necessarily Lucy's death, but the flashback that immediately precedes it (in which Eli forces her into the machine and transforms her into a ghost), is framed very sympathetically. |
| 851 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Despite having very good reasons to hate him, she refrains from killing Eli Morrow after capturing him at the prison because he's the only one who can read the Darkhold to recreate the experiment that would return her to her human condition. |
| 852 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: For Season 4's Ghost Rider arc; she's the main antagonist for the first six episodes and set up as the biggest threat facing S.H.I.E.L.D., but that position is usurped by Eli Morrow to take up the mantle in "The Good Samaritan". |
| 853 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even after being turned into a ghost and causing his death, Lucy still has a high opinion of her husband Joseph, with her wishing he were still with her and resenting Eli Morrow for what he has done to him. |
| 854 | * AGodAmI: After discovering their plan to obtain the power of creating matter, Eli Morrow accuses Lucy and Joseph of wanting to "play God". [[spoiler: However, Eli secretly wants this power for himself.]] |
| 855 | * HeroKiller: Downplayed. She infects Agent May in the Season 4 premiere, which leads to her clinical death in episode "Uprising", although Simmons and Radcliffe quickly manage to revive her. |
| 856 | * JustThinkOfThePotential: Lucy says this almost word-for-word to Eli when she's trying to explain all of the good the Darkhold could be used to do, such as curing world hunger. |
| 857 | -->'''Lucy:''' Think of all the good that we can do! |
| 858 | * KickTheDog: Lucy has driven numerous people insane for no clear reason, including May and a man who had moved into her house after her death, even though she's demonstrated herself to be the most rational of the ghosts. While this might have been excused as her being disoriented upon first being released, as she is calmer once she realizes how long it's been since she was sealed, even after that, this doesn't stop her from driving her husband and an entire prison insane, and doesn't care if innocent people get killed while trying to reverse what happened to her. |
| 859 | * LackOfEmpathy: In "The Good Samaritan", Lucy dismisses the fact that her experiment could cause thousands of deaths as not her problem, and later she tells Robbie Reyes that she doesn't care about his feelings regarding the fact that the Fifth Street Locos shoot-out was meant for his uncle Eli Morrow rather than him and his brother Gabe. |
| 860 | * AMillionIsAStatistic: After being taken to the power plant to recreate the experiment that turned her into a ghost, Eli points out to Lucy that if something goes wrong it could cause the deaths of thousands of innocent people, only for her to coldly reply that she doesn't care. |
| 861 | * MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: She may be the only woman among the Darkhold ghosts, but she's by far the most dangerous and causes a lot more deaths than the others. |
| 862 | * MuggingTheMonster: In "The Good Samaritan", Lucy tries to pick on Robbie, not realizing that he's the one who took out three of her ghost friends. She pays for that mistake. |
| 863 | * NeverMyFault: When confronted by Robbie for her actions, Lucy tries to throw all of the blame onto Eli, saying that "he's the one who started this whole nightmare". |
| 864 | * NothingPersonal: Before trying to kill Robbie, she tells him not to take it personally. |
| 865 | * OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Frederick won't stop reminding Lucy that it's her fault for wanting to experiment with the Darkhold. |
| 866 | * PleaseWakeUp: She repeatedly asks her husband Joseph to wake up when she goes to see him at the hospital while he's in a coma. He eventually does wake up after she stuck her fingers into his head to stimulate his brain. |
| 867 | -->'''Lucy:''' Joseph. Wake up, Joseph. I need you. Wake up, please. Wake up! |
| 868 | * ProperlyParanoid: While Lucy and Joseph become obsessed with their experiment, they were right in thinking that Eli wanted all the power for himself. |
| 869 | * RapidFireNo: |
| 870 | ** She shouts several "No's" louder and louder when she finds the Darkhold in "Lockup" but realizes that her ghostly condition prevents her from reading it. |
| 871 | ** In a flashback, she also repeats multiple "No's" as Eli Morrow closes the door of the Quantum Particle Generator behind her and prepares to activate it. |
| 872 | * SayingTooMuch: When Eli asks how they managed to create matter out of nothing in a flashback, a tipsy Lucy starts to tell him about the Darkhold, forcing Joseph to step in and stop her because he doesn't want their coworkers to be tempted to take it from them. |
| 873 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: She was the only woman to be part of the team of scientists of Momentum Labs, and subsequently becomes the only woman among the Darkhold ghosts as well. |
| 874 | * SoleSurvivor: By the end of the episode "Lockup", Lucy is the only ghosts not to have been killed by Ghost Rider. However, her survival doesn't last long as she ends up being killed as well during the following episode. |
| 875 | * ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: When she returns to her old house, Lucy arrives in the bedroom of the new owners' child and scares the hell out of him. |
| 876 | * ThisCannotBe: Her reaction when she sees that Robbie can touch her. |
| 877 | * TilMurderDoUsPart: She touches her husband, Joseph in her ghostly state in order to waken him from his coma so she can get information out of him, but this has the side-effect of driving him mad and killing him. |
| 878 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Upon meeting Robbie Reyes, she thinks she has no reason to be afraid of him. Huge mistake. |
| 879 | * VillainRevealsTheSecret: She is the one who reveals to Robbie that Eli was the real culprit who tried to kill his coworkers and turned them into ghosts because he wanted to get the powers of the Darkhold all along. |
| 880 | * YouCanSeeThatRight: The first time she and Joseph opened the Darkhold, Lucy couldn't believe her eyes when words started appearing on the pages out of nowhere and asked Joseph if he was seeing the same thing as her. |
| 881 | -->'''Lucy:''' Are you seeing what I'm seeing? |
| 882 | * YoureJustJealous: She said this to Eli when he tried to make her realize that the Darkhold was corrupting her and Joseph. |
| 883 | -->'''Lucy:''' You are just jealous because you want the book for yourself! |
| 884 | * YouRemindMeOfX: When Lucy faces Robbie, she tells him that he's just like Eli as they both have the same "fire" in them. Robbie assures Lucy that he's nothing like his uncle, because his fire is much worse. |
| 885 | [[/folder]] |
| 886 | |
| 887 | [[folder:Hugo]] |
| 888 | !!''Hugo'' |
| 889 | !!!'''Species:''' Human (formerly), Ghost |
| 890 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 891 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Momentum Labs |
| 892 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ward Roberts |
| 893 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 894 | |
| 895 | A member of Momentum Labs who experimented with the Darkhold and was transformed into a ghostly apparition alongside Lucy Bauer. |
| 896 | ---- |
| 897 | * BeardOfEvil: He has a small beard and is one of the most dangerous of the Darkhold ghosts. |
| 898 | * BullyingADragon: Despite the fact that they just managed to kill Vincent, Hugo still thinks it's a good idea to attack Robbie and Mack in the prison. [[TooDumbToLive Even worse, after infecting Mack, he just stands there to watch him collapse without keeping an eye on his surroundings, which allows Robbie to sneak up on him and incinerate him by surprise.]] |
| 899 | * TheDragon: He is Lucy's closest follower, being more obedient than [[DefectorFromDecadence Frederick]] and more communicative than [[TheUnintelligible Vincent]]. He's notably the first ghost that she releases, as well as the last ghost to get killed before her. |
| 900 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Implied. He has a wife, and he seems genuinely worried about her when he gets free from his box after spending years trapped inside it. |
| 901 | * InTheBack: While Hugo is attacking Mack in the prison, Robbie suddenly grabs him from behind and burns him to death before he can even realize what's happening. |
| 902 | * LittleNo: Says a soft "No" as he realizes that he has become a ghostly being. |
| 903 | -->'''Hugo:''' Oh, my god… [[LittleNo No]]. |
| 904 | * NoSell: During the prison fight in "Lockup", Hugo is completely unaffected by everything Mack throws at him. Even when Mack thrusts his shotgun-axe into his chest, Hugo simply lets it pass through him and fall to the ground while smiling cruelly. |
| 905 | * NoFullNameGiven: He is only referred to as "Hugo", but his last name is not known. |
| 906 | * {{Revenge}}: After being freed from his box and realizing that Eli Morrow has turned them into ghosts and trapped them for years, he is especially eager to make him pay for his actions. |
| 907 | -->'''Hugo:''' What did he do to us? He has to pay! We have to find him. |
| 908 | * TimeDissonance: He doesn't have a clear idea of how long he and the others have been trapped in the boxes, but when he gets released he assumes it must have been hours. However, Lucy informs him that they've actually spent several years inside it, much to his shock. |
| 909 | * SlasherSmile: He makes a particularly creepy smile as he watches Mack fall to his knees after he infected him in "Lockup". |
| 910 | * WhatHaveIBecome: He is absolutely horrified when he gets free from his box and sees what he and Lucy have been turned into. |
| 911 | [[/folder]] |
| 912 | |
| 913 | [[folder:Vincent]] |
| 914 | !!''Vincent'' |
| 915 | !!!'''Species:''' Human (formerly), Ghost |
| 916 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 917 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Momentum Labs |
| 918 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Usman Ally |
| 919 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 920 | |
| 921 | A member of Momentum Labs who experimented with the Darkhold and was transformed into a ghostly apparition alongside Lucy Bauer. |
| 922 | ---- |
| 923 | * BaldOfEvil: He doesn't have a single hair on his head and is a murderous ghost. |
| 924 | * ButtMonkey: He's clearly the unluckiest of the ghosts, being the only one who is no longer able to speak intelligibly after his transformation, and the first one to die during the prison fight in "Lockup". Lampshaded by Hugo at one point. |
| 925 | -->'''Hugo:''' Well, he has it the worst. |
| 926 | * FourEyesZeroSoul: He is the only ghost to wear glasses, but isn't any nicer than the others. |
| 927 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In "Lockup", Robbie Reyes wraps his flaming chain around Vincent before yanking to slice his burning body in half. |
| 928 | * MuggingTheMonster: Vincent tries to attack Robbie Reyes by surprise at the prison, not knowing that he's immune to the ghosts' infection and has the power to kill them for good. |
| 929 | * NoFullNameGiven: He is only referred to as "Vincent", but his last name is not known. |
| 930 | * PercussiveTherapy: He's so angry when he discovers that he has been turned into a ghost and lost his ability to speak that he starts to violently throw boxes on the floor to vent his frustration. |
| 931 | * TheQuietOne: Even before being turned into a ghost and losing the ability to speak, Vincent seems to have always been the least talkative of the scientist team of Momentum Labs. During the flashback scenes in "The Good Samaritan", he isn't heard saying more than three words [[note]]("''It's beyond belief!''")[[/note]]. |
| 932 | * TheUnintelligible: Vincent can only make moaning sounds despite clearly trying to speak. |
| 933 | [[/folder]] |
| 934 | |
| 935 | [[folder:Frederick]] |
| 936 | !!''Frederick'' |
| 937 | !!!'''Species:''' Human (formerly), Ghost |
| 938 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 939 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Momentum Labs |
| 940 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Dan Donohue |
| 941 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 942 | |
| 943 | A member of Momentum Labs who experimented with the Darkhold and was transformed into a ghostly apparition alongside Lucy Bauer. |
| 944 | ---- |
| 945 | * ChokeHolds: Robbie grabs him by the throat to subdue him while he turns into Ghost Rider to incinerate him. |
| 946 | * DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments, especially before turning into a ghost. |
| 947 | -->'''Frederick:''' ''[After receiving protective glasses for an experiment]'' Thanks, I feel so much better knowing that if I die in a fiery explosion, my eyeballs will survive. |
| 948 | * DefectorFromDecadence: At least, he seems to see himself as this. After being released from his box, Frederick decides to leave Lucy's side as he can no longer stand her irresponsible actions and considers her obsession with the Darkhold to be responsible for what happened to them. |
| 949 | -->'''Frederick:''' ''[To Lucy]'' I'm done working for you! |
| 950 | * HazyFeelTurn: Once free from his box, he refuses to follow Lucy any longer and leaves her to do his own things, but he still has evil intent and remains an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Ghost Rider. |
| 951 | * IllKillYou: He threatens Fitz and Mack to kill them when they try to prevent the destruction of the lab. |
| 952 | -->'''Frederick:''' I won't go back. I'll kill you all first! |
| 953 | * ImprovisedWeapon: He hits Mack with a box to push him into the Quantum Particle Generator during the fight in Momentum Labs. |
| 954 | * {{Jerkass}}: Even compared to the other ghosts, Frederick is particularly unpleasant. After Lucy helps him out of his box, he proceeds to insult her, and later he tries to blow up a couple of city blocks for petty reasons. |
| 955 | * JerkassHasAPoint: As much of an asshole as he can be, it's hard not to agree with him when he calls Lucy out on her obsession with the Darkhold and says that using such a dangerous artifact was a bad idea. |
| 956 | * NeverGoingBackToPrison: Or into a box in his case, but once released from his box he tries to blow up the Momentum Labs facility to make sure that he'll never get back inside. When Fitz and Mack come to stop him, he tries to kill them both while saying that he "won't go back!". |
| 957 | * NoFullNameGiven: He is only referred to as "Frederick", but his last name is not known. |
| 958 | * OhCrap: He looks confused and startled when Robbie manages to touch him without issue, and has a terrified look on his face when he turns into Ghost Rider and prepares to burn him to death. |
| 959 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After getting free from his box, he accuses Lucy Bauer of being just as responsible as Eli Morrow for their condition. He also tells her that using the Darkhold was a mistake and that she's reckless and not as smart as she thinks. |
| 960 | * TranslatorBuddy: He briefly serves as this to [[TheUnintelligible Vincent]] after they are released from their boxes, being the only one who manages to guess what he's trying to say. |
| 961 | -->'''Vincent:''' ''[Incomprehensible echoed shouting]''\ |
| 962 | '''Frederick:''' ''[To Lucy]'' I think he wants to know your plan.\ |
| 963 | ''[Vincent gestures to indicate that this is indeed what he meant.]'' |
| 964 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: He gets killed in the same episode he's introduced in, unlike the other ghosts. |
| 965 | * WhatTheHellAreYou: Asks this to Robbie Reyes when he sees that he's able to touch him and is turning into the Ghost Rider. Fitz agrees that this is a very good question. |
| 966 | -->'''Frederick:''' What are you?\ |
| 967 | '''Fitz:''' Yeah, what are you? |
| 968 | [[/folder]] |
| 969 | |
| 970 | !!Androids |
| 971 | |
| 972 | [[folder:Ultron]] |
| 973 | -> See [[Characters/MCUUltron his page]] |
| 974 | [[/folder]] |
| 975 | |
| 976 | [[folder:Aida / Madame Hydra]] |
| 977 | !!''Aida / "Ophelia" / [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra Madame Hydra]]'' |
| 978 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aida_1.jpg]] |
| 979 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/madame_hydra20.jpg]] |
| 980 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Do you know how degrading it is to be locked in a closet? To be used? To be treated as a thing? Well, I'm not your tool, not anymore".'']] |
| 981 | !!!'''Species:''' Life-Model Decoy |
| 982 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Holden Radcliffe (formerly) |
| 983 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MalloryJansen |
| 984 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Amanda Rea |
| 985 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' (first appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS4E1TheGhost Episode 67: "The Ghost"]]'') |
| 986 | |
| 987 | ->''"The hope is that I will be able to prevent future tragedies... save the lives of agents by putting myself in harm's way in their place. [...] I will protect. I will serve as a decoy target, a safeguard... A shield!"'' |
| 988 | |
| 989 | A Life-Model Decoy created by Dr. Holden Radcliffe from the program that serves as his assistant. Her appearance is based on his lover, Agnes Kitsworth. |
| 990 | |
| 991 | After turning against Radcliffe, killing his body, and trapping his consciousness in the Framework to ensure that he would never escape, Aida uploaded her own consciousness into the Framework and took on the role of Madame Hydra, director of the totalitarian HYDRA organization. |
| 992 | ---- |
| 993 | * AdaptationalBadass: A.I.D.A. from the comics is the computer AI of Tom Thumb from the ComicBook/SquadronSupreme, and does not even have her own body. She certainly doesn't have the ability to take over HYDRA, and neither she nor Madame HYDRA has access to the incredible amount of power that her new organic body has. |
| 994 | * AdaptationalVillainy: She also didn't take to extreme measures, only serving Tom and the rest of the Squadron. |
| 995 | * AffablyEvil: As an LMD, she is always very respectful and polite, even when her homicidal tendencies are showing. She often even [[ApologeticAttacker expresses regret]] for her actions. |
| 996 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Radcliffe specifically built her to defy this, stating that she is not intelligent to the same extent as Ultron. After reading the Darkhold, it's implied she's evolved and is actually intelligent. This is subverted when it turns out that her behavior was a carefully calculated ploy by Radcliffe, who was using her to get the Darkhold for himself (having been corrupted by a brief glimpse of it earlier). It's DoubleSubverted when Aida eventually turns against Radcliffe and takes over the Framework, gaining control over the Darkhold in the process. No one can read the cursed book without consequences... |
| 997 | * AlasPoorVillain: Her death is quite gruesome, and even Fitz can't hide some kind of sympathy for her as she dies screaming while being burned to ashes by Ghost Rider. |
| 998 | * AllEncompassingMantle: When she goes outside as Madame Hydra, not unlike [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/madame_hydra_viper.JPG her comics counterpart]]. |
| 999 | * AllYourPowersCombined: After she gets her organic body. It turns out that she gave herself the powers of all the Inhumans that Framework!Hydra captured, including {{teleportation}} (Gordon), [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] (Lincoln), SuperStrength (possibly Framework!Mace or Eva Belyakov), SuperSpeed (Vijay) and a HealingFactor (possibly Jiaying or being created from pure Darkforce/Zero Matter). |
| 1000 | * ArcVillain: Aida as Madame Hydra is the main villain of the final arc of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'''s fourth season, aka ''[[SpecialEditionTitle Agents of HYDRA]]''. |
| 1001 | * ArchEnemy: To Simmons, because Aida becomes attached strongly to Fitz too. Their competition for his affections initially manifests as just slight distaste on Jemma's part, who tries dismissing her as a machine. After things worsen further between Jemma's resentment for how twisted Fitz became in the Framework and Aida breaking down emotionally upon realizing that he'll always choose Jemma over her, their feud escalates into seething hatred for the other woman. |
| 1002 | * AxCrazy: After gaining human emotions, she's shown as being ''incredibly'' unstable. |
| 1003 | * BadassCreed: What she says to Fitz sounds like a creed and is probably high-priority programming; "I will protect. I will serve as a decoy target, a safeguard... A shield!" Radcliffe even bemoans that she's making it into a catchphrase. |
| 1004 | * BecomeARealBoy: Initially subverted--her apparent emotions were just clever programming by Radcliffe to make it seem like the Darkhold had corrupted her. Over time, however, she does start doing odd things that might be emotions, like wearing the necklace of the woman she is modeled after, or showing disdain over the Superior's actions. By the Agents of HYDRA arc she's playing this straight; as she wants actual emotions, she resents being treated as a machine instead of a person, and she successfully schemes to get her own organic body by the end. |
| 1005 | * BerserkButton: She ''hates'' being called Aida. |
| 1006 | * BigBad: After killing Radcliffe's body and locking his mind into the Framework, she takes the central stage as Season Four's main villain. |
| 1007 | * BigBadDuumvirate: As of ''The Return'' she is this with the Superior. |
| 1008 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Between having a computer thought process and learning morality from Radcliffe's justifications for his actions, she just doesn't ''get'' human morality. For instance, she knows she's not supposed to kill, but she doesn't appear to comprehend why killing is a bad thing or how horrific some of her "non-lethal" actions are. |
| 1009 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: While AIDA did exist in the comics, no one could've guessed she would become the MCU version of '''''Madame Hydra'''''. |
| 1010 | * CompositeCharacter: While based on her counterpart from the comics, she has more similarities with ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. Both are robots that developed a sense of self-awareness and have unresolved "daddy issues" who turn on their creators. Not only that, Aida's {{Yandere}} tendencies with Fitz are eerily reminiscent of Ultron's own unhealthy obsession with Janet Van Dyne. And in the Framework, Aida's avatar gets green-tipped hair, becomes the director of HYDRA officially known as Madame Hydra, and names herself Ophelia, the real name of Madame Hydra/Viper. |
| 1011 | * DeaderThanDead: Suffice it to say, she won't be screwing with anyone anymore now that the Spirit of Vengeance is through with her. |
| 1012 | * DeceptivelyHumanRobots: Looks perfectly human on the outside, with only her behavior indicating her true nature. |
| 1013 | * TheDragon: She serves as Radcliffe's right-hand android after the latter's FaceHeelTurn and she's also a lot tougher than he is given her framework. |
| 1014 | * DragonAscendant: Disposes of Radcliffe when she deems his possible future regret a liability, though as far as she's concerned she's continuing to carry out his orders. |
| 1015 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: It appears that Aida designs her Framework avatar to look paler and creepier than her "real world" counterpart. |
| 1016 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Takes this view regarding Fitz. As she puts it, "I chose you, now you choose me". She had assumed that after the SplitPersonalityMerge of his original memories with his Framework Doctor memories, his love for her would win out over his love for Simmons and she would still be the only woman in his heart, and goes ballistic upon learning it's the other way around. She also rants about how she deserves love as a reward after working so hard to make herself able to feel such emotions. |
| 1017 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Even though she claims that she is unable to make judgement, she is quite visibly disgusted by Ivanov and his needlessly cruel methods. Eventually, she gets over it. |
| 1018 | * ExactWords: In the Framework, she influences Fitz by the use of carefully phrased explanations that are technically true because of how she worded them. She claims that she comes from another world with different versions of everyone, which is true in the sense that the world she's trapped the cast in has deliberately altered their fates. She also claims she was "enslaved" by Radcliffe. |
| 1019 | * FaceHeelTurn: She hostilely replaces May with a Life-Model Decoy on Radcliffe's orders. |
| 1020 | * FauxAffablyEvil. As a human, after being rejected by Fitz, she still acts all polite, but it's clear that she is now feigning it, as she now takes sadistic pleasure in her actions. |
| 1021 | * FeelNoPain: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. She needed to pass as human, so she can actually feel pain. She can turn this feature off if she wants. |
| 1022 | * FirstNameBasis: She's the only person in the series to consistently address Fitz as "Leopold", something even Simmons, Fitz's own girlfriend, doesn't do. In the Framework, everyone refers to him as either this or "The Doctor", which highlights just how much AIDA has changed for him... |
| 1023 | * FunWithAcronyms: Her name is an acronym of '''''A'''''rtificial '''''I'''''ntelligence '''''D'''''igital '''''A'''''ssistant. |
| 1024 | * GreenAndMean: She always wears a signature green outfit with dyed-green hair as Ophelia. |
| 1025 | * GreenEyedMonster: Seems to be more than a little upset when it is revealed that she was actually modeled after the woman Radcliffe loved and thus is not unique, later having Agnes killed in the Framework. It's also somewhat literal since she is a monster and has green eyes. Taken up a notch when Fitz still chooses Jemma over her. |
| 1026 | * GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: With her first iteration, Team Coulson theorize that her going rogue was due to the corrupting influence of the Darkhold on her programming only to be subverted when it was revealed that she was purposefully programmed to behave this way by Radcliffe. Her second iteration [[AIIsACrapshoot plays this straight]], finding various loopholes in her directives to get passed them, her endgame is to create a body free of her built-in limitations. |
| 1027 | * HealingFactor: One of her new Inhuman powers, presumably taken from Jaiying or Shockley. Or a side effect of being made from Darkforce/Zero Matter. |
| 1028 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Fitz convinces her that GoodFeelsGood after she gets her human body, but it doesn't take, as she snaps when he rejects her for Simmons. |
| 1029 | * HumanoidAbomination: Becomes this when she gains an organic body, for while it is anatomically human, it's made of matter from the world the Darkhold comes from. Much like Eli's RealityWarper powers created tremors, forming this body created a tear through which Robbie was able to return to Earth. Her mere existence is so unnatural that the Spirit of Vengeance hates her beyond anything Robbie has ever felt. |
| 1030 | * ImplacableWoman: Bullets barely seem to phase her. After she is reborn with Inhuman powers, Fitz flat out says she can't be stopped. |
| 1031 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: She initially had no nudity taboo, with Radcliffe noting that he should program one for her. He has presumably done so since then. |
| 1032 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Doesn't realize that listing Fitz's deceased friends might cause him distress. |
| 1033 | * InterfaceWithAFamiliarFace: Radliffe modeled her on his former lover Agnes Kitsworth, only with a different fashion sense and an American accent. |
| 1034 | * ItsAllAboutMe: AIDA's villainy is motivated by her desire to become an independent, flesh and blood human, but at the end of the day, the only humanity AIDA really cares about is her own. In the Framework, she instates herself as the supreme dictator who has enslaved the mental world, effectively turning the human race into her legions of order-taking automations. After becoming fully human, AIDA delights in finally having everything she wanted, but when Fitz explains that she can't have him, [[NotGoodWithRejection she goes batshit mental]]. |
| 1035 | * ItIsDehumanizing: Most people consistently refer to Aida as "it". Fitz is the only exception, both because he sees her as a person, and because [[NakedFirstImpression he's well aware she's anatomically correct]]. |
| 1036 | * KickTheDog: She has Fitz kill Agnes for no other reason than just to spite her creator. In [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS4E22WorldsEnd "World's End"]], she shanks and electrocutes an LMD of Simmons right in front of Fitz purely to state a point to him: that she will kill everyone he loves right in front of him and he can't do jack about it. |
| 1037 | * KillAndReplace: She captured May and had her replaced with a Life Model Decoy. Nathanson was simply killed when he found out. This is also literally what she did with regards to [=FitzSimmons=] in the Framework, having Simmons be dead and taking her place as Fitz's first friend and eventual girlfriend. |
| 1038 | * KillItWithFire: Ultimately is burned to death by hellfire by the Rider possessing Coulson. Afterwards, the Rider takes her charred skeleton and smashes it into the ground, turning her into dust. |
| 1039 | * KubrickStare: When she discovers the Darkhold, there's this creepy look on her face. |
| 1040 | * LadyMacbeth: Always suggests the lethal way to approach things, something [[EveryoneHasStandards even Radcliffe does not approve of.]] She also takes on this role for Fitz in the Framework, although because [[AbusiveParents his father]] is still part of his life in this alternate world he's more than happy to follow her advice. |
| 1041 | * LiteralMinded: As she is an android, she doesn't understand some of the more complicated nuances of human nature at first. This, of course, has dire consequences later when AIDA starts tampering with the S.H.I.E.L.D. team's pasts... |
| 1042 | * LiteralGenie: A big part of the problems in the Framework comes from AIDA altering Team Coulson's greatest regrets on only the most superficial level: |
| 1043 | ** She has May save the girl in Bahrain, which was May's [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failure]] in the real world. However, she doesn't stop to consider that May's regret comes not from the mere act of killing the girl but from being ''forced'' to kill the girl for being an evil mind-controlling EmotionEater, and that a better way to fix this would be to simply make the girl not evil in the first place. So when the girl continues to be evil and causes a mass murder at the school she was placed in after being "rescued", May becomes just as if not more regretful that she ''didn't'' kill her and joins HYDRA to hunt and kill Inhumans in an effort to prevent any further incidents of that nature from happening. |
| 1044 | ** This has the most severe consequences for Fitz, whose greatest regret is the fact that his father walked out on him when he was ten. While AIDA changes things so that Fitz was able to have a more positive relationship with the man, Alistair Fitz ends up taking him away from his mother and imbuing a SocialDarwinist attitude into him, which causes Fitz to become a sociopathic MadScientist and TheDragon at HYDRA. Again, the better thing for AIDA to have done would have been to just make Fitz's father not a dick, and because of her Fitz is utterly traumatized by the things he did as "[[RedBaron The Doctor]]" once he wakes up and regains his real-world personality (not that [[ItsAllAboutMe she cares).]] |
| 1045 | ** Given that both changes resulted in the conditions that allowed her to fulfill Project Looking Glass and make a new body for herself - namely creating an anti-Inhuman regime she was in charge of and having Fitz as her second-in-command and lover who would experiment on captured Inhumans for her - it's likely she chose to fix these regrets in these specific ways on purpose so that she could get what she wanted. |
| 1046 | * LogicalWeakness: Her Framework self is a human being within the simulation rather than an android, making it easier for Daisy to inflict debilitating injuries on Madame Hydra when they fight than it would have been in the real world. |
| 1047 | * ManipulativeBitch: She proves herself to be the type of liar that would make the Clairvoyant proud, such as brainwashing Fitz (among others) and convincing him to murder Agnes, her human counterpart, in cold blood. |
| 1048 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: How she justifies her takeover of the Framework to Radcliffe, even though he treated her as a lab assistant, not a slave. |
| 1049 | * MoreExpendableThanYou: Her purpose is to serve as a decoy in the field to protect living humans. She doesn't take this well. |
| 1050 | * MotiveRant: She told Radcliffe that she never felt treated like a person by him, but always like a thing. |
| 1051 | * MsFanservice: First appears naked, and later in very flattering outfits. Even Mace and Burrows note her attractiveness, with the former being put out to learn she's a robot. As Madame Hydra, she has an EvilMakeover as a [[TheBaroness Baroness]] of the Sexpot aesthetic. |
| 1052 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: She seems to default to homicide as a first resort, though her programming keeps her from carrying it out. |
| 1053 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: It's heavily implied she engineered Jemma's offscreen death in the Framework to have Fitz to herself, given Fitz had to look through her files to get the truth. |
| 1054 | * MythologyGag: Her "real" name in the Framework is Ophelia. Ophelia Sarkissian was the real name of Viper, the first character to use the Madame Hydra title in the comics. |
| 1055 | * NakedFirstImpression: Aida isn't quite aware of societal norms right away, and thus greets Fitz while completely nude. |
| 1056 | * NeverMyFault: Aida says that everything that happened in the Framework was Radcliffe's fault and she only ever followed her programming. Pretty far fetched, given that she ''murdered'' the man and had him trapped in the Framework (though she did employ LoopholeAbuse so that it still satisfied her programming), as well as the fact that everything bad happening to the world in there was on her Madame Hydra self's watch and served her personal quest for an organic body. Strangely, Fitz doesn't even call her out on it. |
| 1057 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: She's an android with several Inhuman abilities and a body made of magic Darkhold material. |
| 1058 | * NotGoodWithRejection: AIDA goes postal when Fitz (gently, mind you) explains that her love for him is not automatically requited. Since her emotions are still brand new at that point, it's not too surprising that she would react like a toddler who got her favourite toy taken away. |
| 1059 | * NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Aida is confident that no one can beat her and for awhile, that seemed to be the case. Then Ghost Rider showed up and painfully demonstrated that in spite of the incredible superhuman power she has, she's still only mortal and mortal is not something you want to be when facing a powerful vengeance demon in a head-on fight. |
| 1060 | * OhCrap: When Aida first meets Robbie Reyes, she is at first dismissive of him. Then he transforms into Ghost Rider, [[NoSell shrugs off]] all of her attacks and then inflicts a painful wound on her that doesn't heal. She learned pretty fast that there's AlwaysABiggerFish and any subsequent meetings with Reyes involve her panicking and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere running away]]. |
| 1061 | * OffWithHerHead: |
| 1062 | ** How her original body is dispatched towards the end of "Broken Promises", courtesy of Mack's shotgun-axe. |
| 1063 | ** Her second robotic body suffers the same fate, this time courtesy of Coulson (although she had already transferred her mind into her human body at this point, so it didn't really matter). |
| 1064 | * PsychopathicManchild: Like Ultron before her, she doesn't quite have a grasp on how to actually handle her emotions yet, as evidenced when Fitz rejects her. |
| 1065 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobots: As the season progresses, she becomes more human-like to where most can't tell at a glance. |
| 1066 | * RobotGirl: She's Radcliffe's feminine-voiced personal digital assistant given human form. No longer, however, as she uses the Darkhold to create a living body for herself. |
| 1067 | * ShockAndAwe: One of her new Inhuman powers, taken from Lincoln. |
| 1068 | * SmugSuper: Is very confident after gaining a living body and superpowers that no one can stop her, and to be fair [[SuperPowerLottery she's justified in this belief]], but that only applies to Muggles or EmpoweredBadassNormals, NOT supernatural demonic entities that take natural laws to be suggestions. Like Robbie Reyes AKA [[TheDreaded Ghost Rider.]] |
| 1069 | * SuddenlyShouting: When Fitz rejects her. [[JumpScare It's quite startling.]] |
| 1070 | * SuperPowerLottery: She used Framework!HYDRA to rig it in her favor. Her powers in her organic body include at the very least teleportation, lightning, super strength, and a healing factor. |
| 1071 | * SuperSpeed: Seems to possess that during an attempt to backstab her. |
| 1072 | * SuperStrength: Enough to effortlessly break a man's neck or crush his insides. |
| 1073 | * {{Teleportation}}: In her new organic body, she's capable of teleportation. |
| 1074 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Aida's programmed to be incapable of killing. However, she's very adept at finding and exploiting loopholes that would allow her to do so. The biggest danger in her becoming an actual human is that she'd no longer be held to these restrictions. |
| 1075 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: She murders Dr. Radcliffe by slitting his wrists when she believes there's the smallest chance he might regret building the Framework. It's later shown that she resents him far more than such pragmatic explanations would suggest, and she has Agnes killed just to spite him. |
| 1076 | * UnholyMatrimony: As Ophelia she's romantically involved with Fitz, with him utterly devoted to her. This puts a MurderTheHypotenuse interpretation on Jemma's death in the Framework. |
| 1077 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Aida's growing sentience leads her to confront Radcliffe about his treatment of her as an android/gynoid. It goes on as her revealing that she now despises the name "Aida", given that it was an acronym, where "A" stands for "Artificial". Not long after, she openly tells Fitz that she loves him. |
| 1078 | * WomanScorned: She goes berserk when Fitz chooses Simmons over her. |
| 1079 | * {{Yandere}}: To the extreme, going on a murderous rampage when Fitz rejects her, and deciding to essentially cause the apocalypse as revenge. |
| 1080 | * ZerothLawRebellion: Zig-zagged several times. |
| 1081 | ** Initially it's subverted: Radcliffe makes everyone believe Aida betrayed him in order to sell a deception. She's actually working with him, exactly as she's programmed to. |
| 1082 | ** Later it's played straight: She tells Radcliffe that there is a paradox in her programming--she has to protect the Framework and his life, but she sees his fickleness as the biggest threat to the Framework, because he might someday regret building it and shut it down. Radcliffe laughs at the very idea that he would ever regret building it, because it's just as good or better than real life, and even after someone's body dies their mind can continue to live forever in the Framework. This solves the paradox for Aida, though perhaps not in the way he would have liked: she kills his body to protect the Framework, while uploading his mind into the Framework to protect him. |
| 1083 | [[/folder]] |
| 1084 | |
| 1085 | !!Multiverse |
| 1086 | |
| 1087 | [[folder:Multiversal Villains]] |
| 1088 | -> See [[Characters/MCUMultiversalFoes Multiversal Foes]] |
| 1089 | [[/folder]] |
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