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16	[[foldercontrol]]
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18	[[folder: The Children of the Night]]
19
20	* DarkIsEvil: Invoked in their name.
21	%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
22	%%* ObviouslyEvil
23
24	!!The Necromancer (Charles Upton Darrow)
25
26	* AxCrazy: He flips between a Saturday Morning cartoon villain and a devious chessmaster and you have no idea when this happens...
27	%%* BigBad
28	%%* EvilSorcerer
29	%%* {{Necromancer}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Are you surprised?]]%%Explain.
30	%%* PoisonedWeapons: His gauntlet darts.%%Explain.
31	* VillainDecay: It's hard to take the man seriously when he's lost to the same group of teenagers twice. [[spoiler: he's starting to get better.]] Making this worse is the introduction of villains such as Mimeo, Mephisto, and to a lesser extent Lady Jettatura, all villains much more competent than him.
32	* XanatosGambit: He ''claims'' that his losses in Boston were him pulling these, but it comes off as a weak attempt to keep himself from looking bad. [[spoiler: However, the Birthday Brawl features him masterfully executing several of these, making out like a bandit and only failing one of his many objectives -- albeit, the most important one. That failure was caused by a [[DidntSeeThatComing fact that he couldn't have known: an Unknown Unknown.]]]]
33
34	!!Lycanthros
35
36	%%* TheDragon: The Necromancer treats him like this, at least.
37	%%* EyepatchOfPower: After Boston Brawl 1.
38	* KryptoniteFactor: He's vulnerable silver and mithril.
39	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent
40	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can shift freely between his human and werewolf forms.
41
42	!!Lady Darke (Sandra K. Darden)
43
44	%%* DarkIsEvil
45	* CastingAShadow: Her favorite trick is to create psionic darkness that almost no one can see through.
46	%%* HighCollarOfDoom
47	%%* PsychicPowers: The source of her abilities.
48
49	!!The Arch-Fiend (Wilbur Bunsen)
50
51	%%* BigRedDevil
52	%%* BreathWeapon
53	%%* TheBrute
54	* TheManBehindTheCurtain: His true form is a pudgy middle-aged man.
55	%%* SpikesOfVillainy: In his demon form.
56	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can freely shirt between his human and demon forms.
57
58	!!Nightgaunt
59
60	* CombatPragmatist: His immediate reaction to being confronted by Lancer? Shoot him in the face.
61	* TheFaceless: He never takes off his helmet.
62	* LegacyCharacter: The original Nightgaunt was a BadassNormal hero. The new one, is not.
63	* PowerCrystal: Well, Power Gems. They're the source of his ShadowWalker abilities.
64	* ShadowWalker
65	%%* TheVoiceless
66
67	!!Vamp (Alex O'Brien)
68
69	* DepravedBisexual: An image she deliberately cultivates. She's actually chaste, possibly even a virgin.
70	* {{Hermaphrodite}}: A true bilateral hermaphrodite though it's not common knowledge as she always presents as female.
71	* TheMole: She likes to think she's the FemmeFatale.
72	* MouthyKid: Just can't help it, even if it gets her tortured by her boss on occasion.
73	* PerkyFemaleMinion: To her boss The Necromancer. You know no one named The Necromancer is going to be a comedian.
74	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Goes along with her albinism
75	* SpannerInTheWorks: She deliberately messes up as much as she dares get away with, because she's an unwilling draftee.
76	%%* TheVamp: In case you hadn't guessed.
77	* VampiricDraining: If she draws too much energy from the victim (say, a mutant with Energizer powers) she tends to go bananas until it wears off.
78
79	[[/folder]]
80
81	[[folder: Other Villains]]
82
83	!!The Chessmaster
84
85	%%* BigBad: During the Halloween attack.
86	%%* TheChessmaster
87	* ChessMotifs: Uses a lot of these, shockingly enough given his name. His normal mooks are called the Chessmen (cyborgs), his backup are the Rooks, his battlefield planning table is the Chessboard, and all his plans are various gambits, openers etc.
88	%%* DeceptiveDisciple
89	%%* NightmareFetishist: He's lovers with Deathlist.%%And?
90	%%* ScryVsScry: Against Mrs. Potter.
91
92	!!Deathlist
93
94	%%* TheDragon: To the Chessmaster.
95	* FreudianExcuse: His own parents drugged him and had him crushed with a trash compactor, back when he was a baby.
96	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Despite his tragic backstory, all the things he would go on to do later in life are so horrible, he hardly deserves any sympathy.
97	* FullConversionCyborg: He has only his brain and a few other vital organs left from his original body. He's been a cyborg most of his life, having been thrown into a trash compactor by his parents when he manifested as a mutant.
98	* HeroKiller: He's got the name because of the huge list of superheroes he has already killed, including ''Champion''. The only person we know of who has survived this killer cyborg is Lady Astarte in the Halloween story, and she had help from [[spoiler:a RealityWarper, a precognitive, and a really huge blaster]]. She still couldn't polish him off.
99	* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Wore a black pinstripe suit during the Halloween attack.
100	%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
101	* WeCanRebuildHim: He's been rebuilt so many times the only human part of him is his head. Supposedly, his first rebuild was after his parents stuffed him into a trash compactor, decades ago.
102
103	!!Gizmatic/Emperor Joseph I of Karedonia (Joe Wilkins)
104	* ArtificialLimbs: His right arm and several other body parts are cybernetic.
105	* BackFromTheDead: He's managed at least two replacement-clone resurrections in the past.
106	* CutLexLuthorACheck: Both an example and an aversion: while he is a CardCarryingVillain and has a long history of criminal activity, since conquering and remaking Karedonia he has also made a fortune selling super-weapons to anyone and everyone.
107	* GadgeteerGenius and MadScientist: He's both a devisor and a gadgeteer, and near the top in both power sets for electronics and electromechanical systems.
108	* EmperorScientist: While he does spend much of his time actually ruling Karedonia, most of his free time is spent working in his lab; while he's been noted as being particularly capable as an administrator, this mostly comes down to his gift for choosing the right people to delegate authority to.
109	* InsufferableGenius: This is probably where Jobe gets his/her attitude from.
110	* MyGreatestFailure: There recently have been hints that Joe's supposed disdain for mind control is due to having used it before, and the attempt having severe negative side effects. [[spoiler:He's thought by most people to have used it on his wife, Lorna, with the side effects being her dramatic personality shifts.]]
111	* SocialDarwinist: He puts his only child through hell trying to test him (later, her) in various ways.
112
113	!!Prince Vlad Brâncoveanu/Lord Fredrick Paramount
114	* DeadpanSnarker: One critic, bemoaning the fact that they had originally hoped to simply outlive him lamented, "He will bury us all!" To which, Lord Paramount asked whether the critic had a preference to a shovel with an ash handle or a pine handle for the job.
115	* PsychicPowers: He has both telepathy and clairvoyance.
116	* RetiredMonster: supposedly retired from supervillainy.
117	* SorcerousOverlord: Superpowered overlord actually.
118	%%* SuperStrength
119
120	!!Lady Jettatura
121	A member (and part of the Executive Board) of the New York Chapter of the Grand Hall of Sinister Wisdom.
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123	%%* EvilSorcerer: Well, Sorceress...
124	* LadyOfBlackMagic: A cultured, sophisticated sorceress with sinister intentions.
125	%%* WickedCultured
126
127	!!Dr. Diabolik (Leonides Daibliku)
128
129	* AFatherToHisMen: Diabolik inspires a ''lot'' of loyalty amongst his followers. Amongst other things, he'll make sure that so long as his minions don't engage in any spectacularly evil acts (your average looting and pillaging is just fine, for comparison's sake), he'll get them the ''best'' legal representation he can, and likely have them out in time for dinner. His minions see that, and reciprocate.
130	* AntiVillain: Caring father, hard-working inventor, BenevolentBoss, and by his own daughter's count, directly responsible for the lives of over 15,000 people in his raids on middle-sized cities around the world.
131	** When he attacks Cincinnati, he secretly encourages the heroes to triumph over his weapons,[[note]]True, it's because it would help him achieve one of his overarching goals - if someone successfully resists the Mind-Web, it gives them a temporary intelligence boost, so by inspiring others to break the effect the heroes are helping raise humanity up in the way Diabolik envisions -- but it's an interesting insight into his character, as it does undercut his short-term objectives of sacking the city.[[/note]] and when highly stressful problems occur, he politely asks his minions for ideas and rewards them for speaking up. Still, he attacks cities, knowing that tons of people will be killed or injured.
132	** When his children are the target of protestors and media outlets, he calls each one of them up, at their homes, at their workplaces, on their mobiles... and [[TranquilFury calmly, politely, and non-threateningly]] explained to them that while he sympathized with them, attacking children over such a thing was a decidedly cowardly act. After that, the protestors just... went away.
133	%%* ArtificialLimbs: A bionic left arm.
134	* BadassNormal: While he's certainly managed to get as far as he has with the assistance of prostheses and cybernetic implants, common speculation by many heroes and villains is that he's a normal, if extremely intelligent, baseline, rather than a gadgeteer or deviser.
135	* BenevolentBoss: Some supervillains at a birthday party, for example, complain that he's completely ''ruined'' the henchman and minion market with his fair and reasonable treatment thereof. He even hires the very best financial advisors and lawyers for them -- and the latter get ''plenty'' of practice.
136	* DatingCatwoman: Jadis, Dr. Diabolik's daughter, suspects that she's the result of a union between Leonides and the White Witch, a Denver-area superheroine. Later events show this to be, if not true, then very near the bulls-eye.
137	* DevilishHairHorns: He's a supervillain with a devil theme. His forelocks that stand up like devil's horns and he is called Dr. Diabolik.
138	%%* ElectronicEye: Well, eyes.
139	* HereditaryHairstyle: He has devil's horn-shaped forelocks, which his children inherited.
140	* HerrDoktor: He's a doctor from Yugoslavia, and invokes the stereotype by deliberately playing up his accent in front of the cameras.
141	%%* LeanAndMean
142	%%* MadScientist
143	%%* OlderThanTheyLook: He's 75, but can pull off late forties.
144	* TheSmartGuy: Jadis also mentions that he has no patience with idiots.
145	* VisionaryVillain: He follows Timothy Leary's '[=SMI2LE=]' concept (Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life Extension) and everything he does goes toward that aim.
146	* WellIntentionedExtremist: In his quest to save Humanity from itself, he's caused over 17,000 casualties.
147
148	!!Imp (Candice Kade, though for a long time she didn't use her given name)
149	See her entry in the Staff folder of the Whateley Academy page for tropes relating to her.
150
151	!!Mimeo
152
153	* AllYourPowersCombined: Can get all the powers of up to six supers. For four hours. He fought the heavy hitters of Team Kimba and gained their powers, beating them up and getting enough powers to go rob an impregnable diamond exchange. In decades of superbattles he has supposedly been beaten only twice, one of which was when he was only thirteen.
154	* DayInTheLimelight: After his first appearance, he got his own novella, "Mimeographic."
155	* PowersAsPrograms: Regular power mimics can do this with mutant powers. He can do this with ''any'' powers.
156	* HeroKiller: Despite not actually killing anyone, he is infamous for taking on entire superhero teams and winning.
157	* PragmaticVillainy: A major reason why he doesn't kill is so he can copy that person's powers again in the future.
158	* TechnicalPacifist: He doesn't kill people. Doesn't have a problem with people he works for doing it, though.
159	%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting
160	* YoungerThanTheyLook: When he first manifested at age 12, he would often look older than he was. Later on in life, he would look younger, though without regeneration it was only superficial. [[ZigZaggedTrope At the end of "Mimeographic" his body is physically 18, but he shapeshifts to appear as if he were 28, and mentally, he's actually 55.]]
161
162	!!Mephisto the Mystic
163
164	%%* AffablyEvil
165	* AncientConspiracy: He's a member of the Red Brotherhood, a cabal dedicated to awakening humanity from their sleepwalking state - by causing mayhem and chaos.
166	* ArchNemesis: Despite stating that it's a bad idea to become to obsessed with a single hero, he ''really'' hates the Dark Avenger.
167	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: The Red Brotherhood taught him several genuine mental powers, though he rarely uses them openly.
168	* KansasCityShuffle: Most of his more public capers were set up primarily to distract the heroes from more mundane crimes done by his Mob associates.
169	%%* OlderThanTheyLook
170	%%* ThePlan: More or less every scheme he's ever pulled.
171	* ThePowerOfActing: Most of his plans involve using stage magic, hypnotism, and other tricks to fake super powers, and he's used elaborately staged hoaxes (everything from an AlienInvasion to a ZombieApocalypse) to keep his enemies guessing.
172	* UnreliableNarrator: We learn about him through a story that he's telling to an IntrepidReporter. It's obvious from the beginning that he's biasing the narrative in his favor. [[spoiler:Then at the end, he reveals that most of what he said was made up, with enough of it true that it will pass scrutiny should someone like Doctor Amazing dig the details out of said reporter's mind]].
173
174	!!Freya (Friedeslinge Larssen)
175
176	* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:She thinks she has done this in the climax of ''Whilst Any Speaks'', but it was all a hoax]].
177	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:She returns in ''Whilst Any Speaks'' with a plan to find the actual Brisingamen and take it for her own, as she believes that it will make her a goddess]].
178	* BeautyIsBad: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]]. Whateley is full of Exemplars, folks who are of nigh-unparalleled physical beauty, but her ''real'' knack was instead to draw people towards her, like a very pretty snake.
179	* BenevolentBoss: Freya never gets angry, never yells, never forces people to do things her way. If someone has an objection, she explains, cajoles, slowly convinces them. If they have a legitimate point, she'll change her plan to work with their point. She's very good at making people loyal to her.
180	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Even without the Brisingamen Effect, Freya was ''very'' good at acting like a nice person to deceive people. This also sums up the Alphas under her role 0- they were still cruel, but Freya at least gave everyone a good time. The Don just crushes them.
181	* BookDumb: Turns out that Freya was woefully ignorant of pop culture, [[spoiler:meaning that when She-Beast manufactured an obvious hoax with the aim of getting Freya beaten up and humiliated, Freya took it seriously and wound up genuinely believing that she could become a goddess]].
182	%%* TheChessmaster
183	* TheEvilGenius: Freya is an ''incredibly'' smart person.
184	* LackOfEmpathy: Freya had no personal feelings or loyalty for anyone (possibly excepting Songbird). If she did something nice, it was only to manipulate them.
185	%%* ManipulativeBastard: One of the best.
186	* MindRape: Her 'Brisingamen Effect', which made everyone it was used on want to love her and serve her.
187	* MeaningfulName: She picked the codename because her power mimicked an artefact of the original Freya. (She was also a tall, blonde, beautiful Scandinavian.)
188	* PosthumousCharacter Well, Post-Graduation Character... She graduated the year the stories begin, so we only hear about her and see her in flashbacks, until ''Whilst Any Speaks''.
189	* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: When her plot in ''Whilst Any Speaks'' is revealed to be a hoax by Jadis to get back at her for humiliating her at the Alpha party, she breaks down, refusing to believe that she has not become a goddess]].
190	* XanatosGambit: Everything Freya did served her purpose on at least three levels. One example: She sends an Alpha called Wildman, a regenerator, to pick a fight with Kodiak. Wildman ends up provoking Kodiak so much that Kodiak effectively kills him (his body survives but his brain regenerates as blank) and Kodiak ends up friendless for the rest of the year. This achieves three things: 1, Kodiak, friendless, feared and lonely, is easy for Freya to recruit; 2, Wildman is out of the Alphas, and 3, a deviser Freya favoured gets a reprieve from Wildman's bullying.
191
192	!!Songbird (Maria Contessa Elyssa Gomez y Ricardo)
193	[[spoiler: See her entry in the Staff folder of the Whateley Academy page for tropes relating to her.]]
194
195	!!Dr. Fitzroy J. Cobb/Dr. Macabre/The Monster Maker
196
197	%%* BadBoss
198	%%* TheFriendNobodyLikes: To the Syndicate.
199	* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He loses the spirit that guided him for years, and then afterwards, for abducting his kid, Mister Magic throws him into the Monster Maker and delivers the results to the California Crusaders]].
200	* MadScientist: He has a Monster Maker device he puts kids in to turn them into monsters such as witches, vampires, and zombies.
201	* MagicPoweredPseudoscience: [[spoiler:His Monster Maker changes those he puts in it by making them avatars for spirits. Nobody was able to figure it out because it was magic, but it looked like science]].
202	* {{Magitek}}: What he wants to create. He's had little luck so far.
203	* MakerOfMonsters: He has a Monster Maker device he puts kids in to turn them into monsters such as witches, vampires, and zombies.
204
205	!!Marzena Twardovski/The Bell Witch
206
207	%%zce* AbusiveParents: Her relationship with Nacht in a nutshell.
208	* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Nacht has her convinced that her fate is to die horribly at the hands of the Witch Hunter. As a result, she is unconcerned with other forms of death. Whether this is actually true or not is unknown, but given the power Nacht had at the time, it's entirely possible.
209	* CastingAShadow: She uses Erebeal Magic, using Nacht as a power source.
210	* HoistByHerOwnPetard: [[spoiler: To get what she wants, she turns Nacht into a demigoddess capable of amazing things. However, what she didn't realise was that Nacht wanted nothing to do with her, and was making previous plans. In the end, Marzena ends up with nothing.]]
211	* IdiotBall: Tries to gain ultimate power while making someone else- namely, the person making it possible- pay for it, something any competent mystic knows is just plain dumb.
212	* NothingCanStopMeNow: Believes this to be the case… right before her downfall.
213	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:She's not Nacht's mother at all. She abducted Nacht as a baby, dipped her into the Erebos and, finding that she survived, adopted her]].
214	* WouldHurtAChild: When Nacht was a baby, Marzena dipped her into the Erebos and didn't expect her to survive.
215
216	!!Dr. Venus
217	%%* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Sex.
218	%%* MadScientist
219	* ProfessorGuineaPig: Her appearance and Energizer powers are the result of selfinduced bio-engineering and have to be renewed often.
220	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She ''really'' lays into Dr. Macabre for being the kind of person [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the Syndicate considers too evil]].
221	%%* TheRival: To Jobe.
222
223	!!Professor/Doctor Reaper
224	* SinisterScythe: TheGrimReaper motif supervillain, Professor/Doctor Reaper has a scythe which "was a horrific amalgam of necrotic and destroying energy. No wound inflicted by the blade would ever heal naturally, and even magic would be touch and go."
225
226	[[/folder]]
227
228	[[folder: Heroes]]
229
230	!!Skyhawk
231	One of the Boston area superheros. He's The Protector of the Weak, and is imbued with the Power of the Hawk. He seems to talk like a parody of a bad comic book superhero.
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233	%%* DatingCatwoman:
234	%%* TheDitz
235	* IdealHero: He always tries to do the right thing, and stands for morality and righteousness. Most of Team Kimba views him as a big dork, and his determination to do things the right way very nearly got Generator and Bladedancer killed by supervillains.
236	* IdiotHero: Forethought is not his strong point.
237
238	!!The Lamplighter
239
240	* TheBlank: He wears a white, featureless, full-face mask.
241	%%* CaptainErsatz: Of the Comicbook/GreenLantern, powers-wise.%%How?
242	%%* JerkAss
243	%%* KnightTemplar: Overlaps with him being LawfulStupid.%%How?
244	%%%%* LawfulStupid
245	%%* LightIsNotGood
246	%%* LightEmUp
247
248	!!Champion
249
250	%%* BigGood
251	* CaptainErsatz: It's made blatantly obvious from the moment he's introduced that he's a Superman equivalent. "Razzle-Dazzle" makes it even more obvious, revealing that he started out only with super strength and the ability to jump really far, but gained powers like flight and heat vision as he absorbed more power from his enemies -- in other words, he followed the same progression the real Superman did.
252	* KryptoniteFactor: The original Champion believed that his powers could be negated by a substance called "Tartareum." No such substance exists; his reaction to "Tartareum" (That is to say, any black chunk of rock that he thought was actually Tartareum) was purely psychosomatic. Unfortunately, this was only discovered ''after'' his death, and his first successor (who learned everything he 'knew' about his powers from the original) shared this weakness; later ones do not, although we still have to meet the ''modern'' Champion in an actual story (beyond a brief encounter when he was seen confronting Baron Blitzen during [[RoadTripPlot the mess that was Charger and Dragonblade's intro story]]).
253	* LegacyCharacter: Champion's powers come from "The Champion Force," which can be passed on to someone else should he die. This has happened multiple times.
254	* WeaksauceWeakness: See "KryptoniteFactor" above. Any black glass he thought was 'Tartareum' could kill him via psychosomatic weakness. Luckily for him, no one discovered Tartareum wasn't real until after his death so no one could take full advantage. The second Champion shared this flaw, and tragically, it ''was'' used against him; he killed by a minor villain with nothing more than a glass knife.
255
256	!!The Dark Avenger
257
258	%%* AncientConspiracy: He's a member of one. [[UnreliableNarrator Maybe]].
259	* CaptainErsatz: Of various titular characters, mostly of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', but there are strong elements of ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'', ''Radio/TheGreenHornet'', and ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' as well.
260	%%* KnightTemplar: [[UnreliableNarrator Maybe]].
261
262	!!Jack Rabbit
263	* BigManOnCampus: What he used to be. That it didn't mean much once he was out of school was a bit of blow to his sanity.
264	* InNameOnly: He is only called a hero because people aren't aware of what a nutjob he really is.
265	* KidSidekick: he keeps recruiting them, despite it being incredibly illegal, but also has gotten at least two killed.
266	* MindManipulation: How he recruits his sidekicks and why he isn't in jail.
267	* PowerCrystal: the source of his powers.
268
269	[[/folder]]
270
271	[[folder: STAR League]]
272
273	Based in Providence, Rhode Island, STAR League is the first super team we meet in the stories. Composed mostly of HappilyMarried couples, they were all classmates or near classmates at Whateley in [[TheEighties the early eighties]]. They're also the parents of STAR League junior, a current Whateley training team.
274
275	!!Falcon and Tabby Cat (Robert and Tabitha Turner)
276	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: to Lily "Wallflower" Turner. Tabitha later becomes an adjunct combat instructor for advanced students. [[spoiler: Robert is Amelia Hartford's replacement in the second generation stories.]]
277	* BelligerentSexualTension: Not quite up to SlapSlapKiss, but they still have a very passionate relationship, which comforts and embarrasses Lily by turns.
278	* DatingCatwoman: Falcon was a member of the Capes at Whateley, Tabby Cat was a member of the Masterminds, and they were constantly butting heads. They didn't actually fell in love until they met again later in college.
279	* GenderBender: Tabby is a Poesy, with all that entails, and it's implied that a lot her issues at Whateley was caused by her acting out.
280	* OpenMindedParent: Robert in particular: He has no problems with Lily dating a transgender student because he married a transgender woman himself, which is pretty remarkable for a man of his generation. He also delivers a lecture telling the students that making a real difference in the world matters more than identifying as a hero or a villain. Tabby a bit less so: she's a mom and a fairly protective one at that. She's still willing to let Lily take on a life-or-death mission once she's been convinced Lily is the only one who could pull it off.
281	* RescueArc: As part of their BackStory. After they married, Tabby Cat was initially satisfied to be an 'ordinary' housewife, while Falcon went out as a hero - until the day he didn't come back home. Tabby had her parents take Lily in for a while before diving deep into the criminal underworld looking for clues. She managed to locate the people holding him, who turned out to be a [[HumanTraffickers child sex-slave ring]] he had been investigating. [[MamaBear Deeply moved by the plight of the children]], she decides to rescued the "merchandise" as well, breaking up the ring. After this, she insisted that she join Falcon and the rest of STAR League.
282	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Tabby is very intense and so intent on teaching the kids to be ready for anything in her job as an advanced combat instructor she seriously injures Megagirl, earning her a dressing down from Mrs. Carson.
283
284	!!Magma
285	Mother of Ashley "Phoenixfire" Strum. A fire manifestor and former member of the Alphas. Unlike her classmates she married a banker. [[spoiler: They later adopt Ashley's friend Peggy/Pegasus after her parents are murdered by [[FantasticRacism Humanity First!]]]]
286
287	!!Soldier of Fortune and Lightwave
288	Parents of Charles "Dredz" Twain, a devisor and an energizer.
289
290	!!Linebacker and Red Archer (Bill and Susan Willows)
291	Parents of Mark "Psymod" Emerson, a pair of exemplars who aren't particularly thrilled that their son is a package deal psychic
292
293	[[/folder]]
294
295	[[folder: California Crusaders]]
296
297	!!Sunburst
298	A popular superhero and the duly appointed legal guardian of current Whateley Bad Seed Katrina "Kate" Tvardowski AKA Nacht. One of the leading Crusaders, though they aren't hierarchical and typically operate by consensus.
299	----
300	* HiddenDepths: She may look like a bimbo, but she's actually incredibly smart and tough. Her dynamorph is one of, if not the strongest one out there.
301	* LightEmUp: She can shoot blasts of light due to her Dynamorph.
302	* LightIsGood: She's a very kind and sweet person, who genuinely cares about Kate.
303	* NiceGuy: When Kate (Nacht) surrendered to get out from under her mother's thumb, Sunburst took custody instead of just sending Kate to Child Services, and genuinely cares about Kate.
304	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Her bubbly blond personality hides a sharp intellect.
305	* OlderThanTheyLook: She's still appearing to be in her twenties despite being at least forty years older.
306	%%* SecretPublicIdentity
307
308	!!Swashbuckler
309	A Zorro-esque swordsman.
310	----
311	* BadassNormal: Not a mutant, but highly trained
312	* CombatParkour: turns {{Flynning}} into an actual combat style
313	* LegacyHero: He's the fourth to use the name Swashbuckler. His predecessor the second swashbuckler is currently consulting for Spectrum and mentoring Stacey "Siver Ghost" Conrad.
314	%%* NonPoweredCostumedHero
315
316	!!Bruja
317	A magic user with Central American theme.
318	----
319	* InspectorJavert: Doesn't like or trust Nacht, believing that she was lying to the team from the start and working with the bad guys. (She was, but it wasn't her choice.) Later, it turns out that she had a bet with Sunburst over it, so she was trying to prove that Nacht was a criminal so she could win.
320	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Bruja" or "Brujah"? The text isn't quite clear on which.
321	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Invokes this on [[spoiler: demigoddess!Nacht]], saying that she can't [[spoiler: destroy Marzena's mind to find out the identity of her real mother]] because Sunny will be upset. It works.
322
323	!! Daybreak and Nightfall
324
325	%%* FinishingEachOthersSentences
326	* PolarOppositeTwins: Their schtick is to arrange their appearance so that they look like opposite halves of a whole- Nightfall is white, wears black and has black hair, while Daybreak is black, wears white and has white hair.
327
328	!!Skyrider
329
330	* GadgeteerGenius
331
332	!!Big Dawg
333
334	%%* EmbarrassingFirstName: Beauregard.
335	* HiddenDepths: He's a very successful businessman, one who aims to support the black community by finding people like Chiller, who can become his apprentices and then become successful businesspeople like him.
336	%%* SizeShifter
337
338	!!Chiller
339	Big Dawg's xurrent apprentice, a former street kid with the brains recognize a legit opportunity and grab it with both hands.
340	----
341	* AnIcePerson: He has ice powers, hence the codename.
342	* HeelFaceTurn: He used to run a car-stealing ring, but was caught and has now become Big Dawg's apprentice.
343	%%* TagalongKid
344
345	[[/folder]]
346
347	[[folder: SPECTRUM]]
348	SPECTRUM is the name of Cincinnati’s most recent superhero group whose members mostly act on their own rather than as a team. They were given their name by the media because of the RainbowMotif and ColorfulThemeNaming of the founding members. They collectively act as the guardians of Stacy Conrad.
349
350	!!Golden Knight
351	A seemingly Iron Man like hero, though his "suit" is actually a humanoid robot drone.
352	----
353	* BadassNormal: The one non-powered hero in Spectrum.
354	* MissionControl: In addition to his combat duties.
355	* SurveillanceDrone: He also uses them as additional power sources for his robot.
356
357	!!Goldstar
358	A former core member of the team who went too far and got sent to prison for assault and property destruction, he's now out on parole and wants to get back in the game, but none of the others want anything to do with him.
359	----
360	* FantasticRacism: He's clearly not a fan of mutants, though so far he's mostly stopped short of blatant bigotry. Mostly.
361	* JerkAss: His younger brother found a dynamorph. He talked him out of using it only to keep it for himself, literally stealing his superpowers from someone else.
362	* WhatTheHellHero: He actively interfered with Silver Ghost's pursuit of Madcap, and then blamed her for letting Madcap get away. The local District Attorney, who had pulled a lot of strings to get Silver Ghost into position for the takedown, had some less than happy words for him.
363	* TheTeamWannabe: While he is actually still on the team despite his stretch in prison, not many of the members want to put up with him, even if they can't actually kick him out.
364
365	!!Green Witch
366	A magic-based LegacyCharacter whose predecessors haven't necessarily been heroic.
367	----
368	* BenevolentBoss: She bankrolls Spectrum, but is not a dictator.
369	* DealWithTheDevil: She gets her power from an infernal contract that she inherited from a several times great grandmother. She's the 7th in the line, and she has to cancel out the contract with a sufficient amount of Grace (good deeds) to balance the evil her ancestors have done, or she (and the rest of them) will pay the price.
370	%%* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Her Witchcave.
371	%%* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Thanks to her Pool of Vigor.
372	* RagsToRiches: She was raised by middle class parents. Then she inherited a fortune from her grandmother.
373
374	!!Blue Streak
375	%%* SuperSpeed
376
377	!!Red Thunder
378	* PowerCrystal: he's bonded with a powergem.
379
380	!!Violet
381
382	!!Azure
383
384	!!Captain Patriot
385	%%* CaptainPatriotic: He leads a super-team in Cincinnati.
386	%%* FlyingBrick
387	* MyGreatestFailure: he once talked a a young mutant into surrendering to the MCO: the kid promptly disappeared and was never seen again, and the MCO still steadfastly denies he even existed. He will go rogue before he lets the MCO get their hands on Stacey and makes sure they know it.
388
389	!!Tawny
390
391	* AtrociousAlias: While it isn't all that bad, 'Tawny' was the name given to her by the media (because it fit with SPECTRUM's color based ThemeNaming) rather than one she chose, and she's not happy with it.
392	%%* CatGirl: Lioness, specifically.
393
394	!!Silver Ghost (Stacy Conrad)
395	A transgender teen runaway under the guardianship of the Green Witch (as Stacy) and the ward of the whole team in general (as Silver Ghost. Wealthy enough in her own right to keep the Green Witch's predatory family at bay, Stacey is mid-transition and desperately hiding that from everyone out of a (fully justified) fear of rejection.
396	----
397	* AbusiveDad: She had the classic abusive stepfather.
398	* FlyingBrick: With some added benefits like invisibility.
399	%%* GenderBender: And ''thrilled'' about it.
400	* IHaveNoSon: His/her step-father George was looking for an excuse to kick Stanley out anyway, even before s/he manifested as a mutant.
401	* {{Invisibility}}: Her most important power, because it prevents her from being targeted.
402	* MistakenForBadass: When her boyfriend Danny had her raiding local mobsters for money, everyone assumed that she was a really slick professional criminal to pull of what she did, when in fact she was mostly just lucky. When the Green Witch caught her, she broke down and started crying.
403	* PsychicPowers: Evidence indicates that she's a 'Package Deal Psychic' - her strength and invulnerability come from short-range psychokinesis, her invisibility is a form of mental shrouding, and she has (intermittent) telepathic and empathic powers. She's apparently quite powerful (at least for TheVerse) despite her lack of experience, as unlike most others with this power set she can use more than one of these abilities at a time.
404	* TheRunaway: She ran away from an abusive home.
405	* SelfDeprecation: Stacy's self esteem is in the pits, and it shows.
406
407	!! Swashbuckler
408	The second Swashbuckler is not a member of SPECTRUM, or an active hero anymore, but while he's passing through Cincinnati looking for a worthy student, he's acting as an adviser to the team and a mentor to Stacey.
409	----
410	* CombatParkour: Though he was doing it long before LeParkour came along.
411	* LegacyHero: He's the second Swashbuckler, and was active mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. He's a predecessor to the current Swashbuckler (see California Crusaders above), but has been retired for years.
412	* NonPoweredCostumedHero: While he does have at least one power item, he's mostly this.
413	* TheMentor: he's no longer an active hero, but he's now looking for a new student to teach his skills to.
414
415	[[/folder]]
416
417	[[folder: Sioux Falls League]]
418
419	Another super team of Whateley classmates and near-classmates, this time from TheNineties. [[spoiler: Disbanded in 2013 after a near-TotalPartyKill while fighting [[EldritchAbomination The Unhcigila]].]]
420
421	!! Cornflower (Debra Matson)
422	A Exemplar and Energizer, and recent Whateley graduate. The youngest member of the team at 19, so it doesn't raise many eyebrows when she becomes the girlfriend of 17 year old Kayda "Pejuta" Franks. Her alias was inspired by the intense blue color of her eyes.
423	%%* HandBlast
424	%%* LipstickLesbian
425
426	!! Farm Boy
427	A package deal psychic with the powers of strength, telekinesis and flight. He also has a glamour aura he can't entirely turn off.
428	%%----
429	%%* BigGuy
430	%%* GentleGiant
431	%%* {{Glamour}}
432
433	!! Tractor (Jake Barton)
434	The team brick, he is also keen history buff, and is working on his Ph.D in the subject. Married to Vanity Girl, whom he pursued romantically when they were both Whateley students. Looks like a good ol' boy, but looks can be deceiving.
435	----
436	%%* BigGuy: Classic PK superman type.%%What?
437	* GeniusBruiser: despite his appearance, he is quite intelligent, and an avid student of ancient history especially. In the second generation stories, he's finished his Ph.D, is teaching history at Whateley, and serves as faculty adviser to Laura "Cerulea" Samuels.
438	* StoutStrength: with a small double chin and the start of a beer belly, he actually looks more like a real farmer then his erstwhile associate Farm Boy.
439
440	!! Twinkletoes
441	A Warper and a Telepath with a stylistic (but not physical) resemblance to Fred Astaire. Wears a costume that resembles a tuxedo.
442	%%----
443	%%* CulturedBadass
444	%%* RealityWarping
445
446	!! Vanity Girl (Vanessa Miles Barton)
447	A mage and an empath, is not pathologically narcissistic despite the codename. Married to Tractor. [[spoiler: Is retired in the second generation stories, having been rendered paraplegic by an incurable curse in the battle against the other.]]
448	%%----
449	%%* HotWitch
450	[[/folder]]
451
452	[[folder: Loose Cannons]]
453	A group of ordinary teenagers who were abducted from their high school and involuntarily used as incubators for dynamorphs, only to escape from their captors while retaining the dynamorphs. They're currently traveling across America in the hope of making it to somewhere safe, and have been given indirect information about Whateley (though they haven't been given the name or location of the school itself yet).
454	----
455	* AnyoneCanDie: As of the end of ''Vegas, Baby, Vegas!'', the death toll is five.
456	* ComboPlatterPowers: Most of the dyna-hosts, since dynamorphs don't tend to give the hosts the most basic kinds of powers. They've also picked up a variety of weapons and objects that give them extra powers.
457	* GenderBender: Roxie, Rae, Chris and Evan all got dynamorphs that make them change genders when stressed, and revert back later.
458	* IndyPloy: Their plans have a tendency to descend into this trope.
459	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The original group were specifically chosen as the dregs of the high school, and they've been picking up random additions.
460	%%* SixthRanger: Marly, Yvonne, Megan, Rick and Ginny.
461	* SuperhumanTrafficking: The starting point of their StoryArc, it comes up again and again throughout the series in various ways.
462	* TeamPet: Sparky, a very intelligent dog they rescued from UNITY.
463	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Not with the MCO, the people who abducted them in the first place and the media looking for them.
464	* YouDontLookLikeYou: In-universe example: being made into dyna-hosts changed their looks enough that they're not immediately recognisable.
465
466	[[/folder]]
467
468	[[folder: Cadet Crusaders]]
469	A teenage superhero group of New York. Seen in [[https://crystalhall.wikia.com/wiki/Have_Yourself_an_EVIL_Little_Christmas "Have Yourself an Evil Little Christmas"]], [[https://crystalhall.wikia.com/wiki/Saks_and_Violence "Saks and Violence"]], and [[https://crystalhall.wikia.com/wiki/Diamonds_Are_a_Vamp%27s_Best_Friend "Diamonds are a Vamp's Best Friend"]].
470
471	!! Aurora
472	* ArtificialPerson: She and Rubber Boy are the only survivors of a group called the Designer Heroes, created as the 'custom-made superheroes of the future'.
473	%%* PsychicPowers
474
475	!! Bronze (Melody Havoc)
476	Daughter of two ScienceHero {{Adventure Archaeologist}}s who gained superpowers after being kidnapped by a supervillain. Joined the CC sometime between late February and mid-April 2007.
477	%%----
478	%%* InsufferableGenius
479	%%* SuperStrength
480
481	!! Gryphon (Carla Balducci)
482	* PoweredArmor: One she doesn't fully understand. [[spoiler: It, and the Gargoyle armor, are later repossessed by Gargoyle's legal heirs thanks to She-Beast's legal maneuvering.]]
483	* TheMentor: The Gargoyle (Wayne Starkey) was Gryphon's father figure, and the one who created the Gargoyle and Gryphon armor suits. He was killed in battle some time before Winter 2006.
484
485	!! [=IronJack=]
486	Former member who 'graduated' to the Brooklyn Sentinels sometime in early 2007, between "Evil Little Christmas" and "Saks and Violence".
487
488	!! Nightchylde (Jill ?)
489	%%* CastingAShadow
490	* KryptoniteFactor: Sacred Moly, similar to Nacht's weakness to it. Fortunately, it is really, really hard to get a hold of any.
491
492	!! Rubber Boy
493	%%* ArtificialPerson
494	%%* RubberMan
495
496	!! [=PowerJack=]
497	While not much is known about him, he was apparently empowered by a NanoTechnology accident.
498	----
499	!! Splendor (Geneva Tipton)
500	* PowerGem: She bought them, apparently just for the sake of showing Jadis Diabolik up.
501	* RichBitch: enough to put herself in danger just to piss off an elementary school rival.
502
503	!! Tiger Girl (Chrissey ?)
504	* CatGirl: Like her mentor, Lioness, she's a furred felinoid.
505
506	!! Tower
507	%%* SizeShifting
508
509	!! Ultramax
510	* ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Does this often enough that it becomes a RunningGag. When ever he does, someone immediately takes advantage of that information.
511	[[/folder]]

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