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Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
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- Affectionate Nickname: Pete and Petey. The last one was first used by MJ.
- Alliterative Name: Peter Parker.
- Amateur Sleuth: Even before getting his powers he was a photographer for his school's newspaper.
- Brainy Brunette: Brown haired and he's part of his decathlon team and member of its chess club, plus he likes sciences and mathematics.
- Childhood Friends: He's been friends with Harry Osborn for years, although he can't quite recall where they exactly met. He also has known Mary Jane Watson since they were seven.
- Conveniently an Orphan: Ever since his parents Richard and Mary died in a plane crash, he's been raised by his uncle Ben and aunt May.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Average brown hair and brown eyes.
- Does Not Like Spam: He doesn't like mayonnaise on his sandwiches, and also doesn't like crust.
- The Everyman: As always, Peter is a mostly normal guy who lives in a world of superheroes.
- Fanboy: He's a big fan of Reed Richards.
- Fan of the Underdog: He's also a big fan of the New York Mets.
- Happily Adopted: As far as Peter is concerned, Ben and May are his parents in all but name.
- Insecure Love Interest: He's rather insecure about if Mary Jane does have a crush on him and can't decide if he's really dating Gwen Stacy.
- Mr. Exposition: He has his own character files named Parker Place that tells about characters related to him.
- The Prankster: He admits so himself, something he shares with his uncle Ben.
- Proud to Be a Geek: Admits he's something of a nerd and a big Star Trek fan.
Daredevil (Matt Murdock)
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- Alliterative Name: Matthew Murdock.
- Blind People Wear Sunglasses: He's blind and he always wears his signature red-tinted glasses.
- Handicapped Badass: He's blind but Matt is very much a capable fighter, even with just his sharpened senses.
- Living Lie Detector: His senses are so sharp he can easily detect when someone is lying to him.
- Missing Mom: His mother Maggie Murdock abandoned the family due to post-partum depression and became a nun.
- That One Case: The unsolved murder of his father the amateur boxer Jack Murdock.
- Religious Bruiser: Matt happens to be a devout catholic.
The Punisher (Frank Castle)
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Frank Castle was a former Marine and NYCPD cop who lost his family during a picnic because of a mob hit ordered on him. After that and his murdering the mod street captain involved, something in Castle died and was replaced by a need for vengeance, setting him on the path to becoming possibly one of the single deadliest men on Earth.
To him, Frank Castle died and only the Punisher remains, and God help any criminal that appears on his hit list.
- Adaptational Job Change: While his background as a military veteran remains, he's also a former NYCPD officer when his family was killed.
- Badass Normal: Frank has no powers, yet he's an expert in guerilla tactics, hand-to-hand combat, strategy and marksmanship, making him one of the most feared vigilantes in NY.
- Brooklyn Rage: Frank was born and raised in Brooklyn and you don't want to be on his bad side.
- Carpet of Virility: He has a pretty hairy chest, and he's quite the manly guy.
- Family Honor: When he was kid he got in more than one fight to defend his family's name when classmates hurled racist insults or accusations due to having the same family name as the notorious Castiglione crime family.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a few scars on the left side of his face.
- The Lost Lenore: His wife Maria and their children Lisa and Frank Jr.
- Military Superhero: While he's not exactly a superhero, he's a former Marine and special forces agent drafted due to his accuracy and effectiveness.
- Outliving One's Offspring: His son Frank Jr. and daughter Lisa Castle both died during the mob hit that also killed his wife Maria.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Make no mistake, Frank is pretty ruthless when dealing with criminals, but many think they had it coming.
Doctor Strange (Dr. Stephen Strange)
- Alliterative Name: Stephen Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme.
Black Panther (T'Challa)
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- Action Politician: Part of T'Challa's education included intensive study of not only political and military strategy, world and local history, art, dance, and economics.
- Bodyguard Babes: If you happen to see T'Challa, approach him with caution. If you make any sudden movements toward the prince, you might find yourself tackled by bald African ninja women. Not to worry, these are the Dora Milaje, the Wakandan equivalent of the Secret Service, only a million times cooler, sexier, and scarier.
- Color Animal Codename: Black Panther.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: His appearance is based on Chadwick Boseman, who played him in the MCU.
- Cultured Badass: T'Challa has a sensitive side that he is not afraid to show. He has a deep appreciation for art and cultural expressions. He often spends his free time at the museum or taking in Broadway shows. He's a big fan of American music. He collects vinyl records and is known for sponsoring weekend talent showcases at local clubs or hosting art galleries.
- Cunning Linguist: T'Challa speaks at least six languages. His native language is the Wakanda dialect of Xhosa. Other languages he speaks are English, Kalanga, Afrikaans, Arabic, and French.
- Good Stepmother: Losing his mother N'Yami shortly after his birth, he's quite close to his stepmother Ramonda and younger half-sister Shuri.
- Royal Blood: T'Challa hails from a long line of Wakandan royalty, with a lineage dating back generations, even through the centuries of colonial oppression in which the royal family was little more than cultural figurehead with little power.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: He's the crown prince of Wakanda and very much involved in the runnings of his country.
Ghost Rider (Johnathon "Johnny" Blaze)
Blade (Eric Brooks)
- Badass Longcoat: An impressive black leather coat.
- Cool Shades: His signature sunglasses, which he doesn't take off even at night.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He's a half-vampire hunter with sharp fangs who dresses in black leather and almost always wears shades, but he's a good guy.
- Dhampir: He's half human and half vampire, meaning he can walk in the sunlight without much issue.
- Hellbent For Leather: Oh yes, he wears quite a lot of black leather, fitting for a vampire hunter.
- Manly Facial Hair: A well-trimmed goatee and mustache and he sure is manly and edgy.
- Scary Black Man: He might be on the side of good but he can be pretty intimidating if he wants to.
- Vampire Hunter: Easily one of the most famous examples.
- They Call Him "Sword": Almost everyone calls him Blade, very rarely by his real name.
Deadpool (Wade Wilson)
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- Alliterative Name: Wade Winston Wilson.
- Ambiguously Human: It's not clear if Wade was a latent mutant or he's a mutate given powers by a Super Soldier Formula experiment.
- Anti-Hero: Oh yes, Wade is a mercenary who happens to have little qualms about killing his opponents.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Make no mistake, Wade is just as talkative and irreverent as he acts, but he's also a genuinely skilled mercenary.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: As always, Wade will occasionally talk to the audience or reference he's a fictional character, usually to the confusion of whoever he's talking to.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Even without breaking the fourth wall, Wade is a weird person.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: His appearance is based on the actor Ryan Reynolds, who portrays him in the X-Men Film Series and Deadpool films.
- Cunning Linguist: Wilson is reportedly fluent in English, Esperanto, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Pig Latin.
- Dual Wielding: His weapon for close quarters are two katanas strapped to his back.
- Fights Like a Normal: Wade's healing factor doesn't give him any perks beyond making him just as strong as an Olympic athlete. He is an extraordinary martial artist, hand-to-hand combatant, and is a master of multiple unarmed combat techniques. He is also a master of wide variety of assassination techniques, espionage methods, covert operations, infiltration methods, escape artistry, marksmanship, and is highly skilled with many bladed weapons (recent sightings of him in his new "super-suit" describe him carrying two swords strapped to his back), and a number of other weapons including firearms.
- Healing Factor: Wilson possesses an accelerated healing factor which allows him to regenerate damaged or destroyed bodily tissue with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human — even faster than those of James Logan and Victor Creed.
- I Have Many Names: Weapon DPP-001, Armando Khan, DP, Buchanan "Buck" Neket, Jack Koffer, Merc with a Mouth, Regenerating Degenerate.
- The Mentally Disturbed: It is possible that Wilson suffers from a wide variety of mental disorders due to his body's regenerative abilities. Among Wilson's mental disorders are partial amnesia, various obsessions (such as the "Golden Girls" TV series), phobias (cows, chickens, being alone), and strange belief that he is a fictional character.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Wilson's healing factor (or mental illness) makes his brain a difficult thing for telepaths to process. Apparently, reading his mind can cause confusion, migraines, or even temporary insanity.
- Motor Mouth: He's the Merc with a Mouth for a reason. Wade never stops talking, even when he's told not to.
- Mysterious Past: His exact backstory and how he obtained his powers are uncertain, and Wade's memory doesn't help. It's not even clear if Wade Wilson is his actual name.
- Pulling Themselves Together: If severed, Wilson's head or any other limb can be quickly reattached. While beheaded, Wilson can still move his body normally (though clumsily). Similarly, his severed limbs are still able to flop, squirm, or drag themselves along the ground. This appears to be possible through some psionic connection Wilson maintains with his living cellular mass. As new parts are regrown, the severed parts decay and the psychic connection likewise diminishes until it fades completely.
- Serial Spouse: It's easy to tell Deadpool falls in love very quickly, and he's been married at least five times; his ex-wives include Carmelita Camacho, Mercedes Hawkins, Gretchen Bailey, Inez Temple and Raven Darkholme. His current and sixth wife is Vanessa Carlyle/Copycat.
- The Topic of Cancer: Wilson suffers from a form of cancer that is aggravated and accelerated by his regenerative powers. The cancer has disfigured him. At this time, it is unknown if this cancer is natural or was a failed attempt to kill him.
Squirrel Girl (Doreen Greene)
Heroes for Hire
In General
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Both Misty and Colleen wear in casual clothes midriff baring outfits, while Luke and Danny do not.
- Color-Coded Characters: Luke uses yellow, Danny green, Misty red and Colleen uses white.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: The founding members are two men (Luke and Danny) and two women (Misty and Colleen).
Power Man (Luke Cage / Carl Lucas)
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- Bald Head of Toughness: Currently just a buzzcut but Luke is incredibly tough thanks to his powers.
- Boxing Battler: Cage is a self-taught hand-to-hand combatant with street fighting experience. He may have also learned a few moves in prison from Frank or from his roommate who is something of a karate enthusiast.
- Catchphrase: As always, "Sweet Christmas".
- Healing Factor: On the off-chance that Cage is injured, he can recover about three times faster than a normal person.
- Knuckle Cracking: He has a habit of cracking his knuckles when he's nervous.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With his roommate and best friend Danny Rand.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Luke is surprisingly good at cooking. If he's not reading a casefile for the Heroes for Hire, he's got his nose in a cookbook for new ideas and techniques.
- Super-Strength: Cage's strength has increased to levels that surpass those of the test subjects from the original WWII formula. Frank believes that Cage could easily lift one to two tons. He was able to "accidentally" snap police restraints when he has a muscle spasm with a sneeze and was able to easily kick the door off an armored police transport van. In his work as "Power Man", news reports remark that the vigilante can toss grown men aside with one hand.
- Super-Toughness: According to Frank, Cage's muscles, bones and skin are all super-dense, at least as hard as steel. This bestows amazing protection from most violence and environmental hazards. He is able to withstand gunfire at point-blank and cannot even be cut by razor-sharp blades. He also seems unfazed by high-voltage electrical shock, falls from great heights, and even being lit on fire.
Iron Fist (Daniel "Danny" Rand)
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- Bare-Fisted Monk: Danny is scary good master of K'un-Lun's martial arts style, K'un-Lun Quan. However, he still claims he is little more than a "bumbling amateur" compared to the true masters of the style.
- Cunning Linguist: Danny speaks his native English, but he also seems to have mastered Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Tibetan, Thai, and speaks passable Japanese according to Colleen. He also speaks what sounds like gibberish, but Danny assures it is the language of "Shoulao", the language of K'un-Lun.
- Half-Breed Discrimination: Some conversations between Luke and Danny reveal that he has faced no shortage of racial discrimination in his life on account of his being the son of a white South African father and an Asian K'un-Lunese mother. Misty isn't sure whether this was during his childhood in New York or during his training in K'un-Lun, but she guesses it was both. The world's got no shortage of ignorant assholes.
- Multi-Melee Master: Apparently K'un-Lun Quan is not the only martial art that the Iron Fist has studied. Easy to guess the mystical city that disappears and reappears every decade has imported masters of all manner of fighting disciplines in order to compliment their own fighting techniques. Other styles which Danny has studied and mastered to some degree include Shaolin Kung Fu, Zuiquan ("Drunken Boxing"), Judo, Aikido, Karate, Tai Chi, Muay Thai, Boxing, Jiu-jitsu, Taekwondo, Capoeira. Yeah, as said so by Misty Knight "bumbling amateur", my ass...
- Non Conformist Dyed Hair: Misty thinks Danny bleaches his hair blonde as part of an Iron Fist ritual (something about the champions of K'un-Lun adorning their heads in a "mantle of golden light"), but there are people who think Danny does it to make himself look more like his father to dispute the claim the real Danny Rand died ten years ago.
- Power Tattoo: His signature dragon chest tattoo, which is noticeable even with a shirt on.
- Race Lift: In the comics Danny was white, but here he's half-white and half-Asian, K'un-Lun to be precise.
Mercedes "Misty" Knight
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- Afro Asskicker: Misty has a prominent afro and she's quite the crime fighter.
- Cool Shades: She wears red-tinted glasses in casual clothes.
- Lovely Angels: With Colleen Wing.
- Mr. Exposition: She's the one who administers the KnightWatch files, who are centered around New York's street level vigilantes.
- Near-Rape Experience: Some frat boys tried to rape her during a party, but she gave more of a fight they expected and she would be saved by the "Devil" (Matt Murdock). When the frat boys got off scott free due to their connections and she tried to get revenge, turns out Matt had already gotten to them first and made them admit they had already killed two other girls.
- Red Is Heroic: Wears a red tank-top, headband and even glasses and she's a heroic individual.
- Related in the Adaptation: She's the niece of Joseph "Robbie" Robertson through her mother Janet, also making her cousin of Randy Robertson.
- Statuesque Stunner: She stands at 5'9"/175cm tall and she's considered quite attractive.
- You Talk Too Much!: Colleen thinks she talks too much about herself.
Colleen Wing
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- Badass Bookworm: Not only she's a badass samurai lady, she's also a full-time student of ESU, studying literature. According to Misty, Colleen's idea of a vacation is locking herself in a room with a stack of books.
- But Not Too Foreign: She's half-Japanese through her mother Azumi Ozawa and a quarter Chinese and white through her father Richard Wing.
- Clothing Reflects Personality: Colleen's sense of style is always visible, despite her cold palate, abundance of sports attire, and lack of makeup or flair. Colleen does accessorize a little, but it's never showy, over-the-top, or in-your-face. That's not to say it's not bold or absurd because it often is, it's just less is more with Colleen. In general, her style is a lot like her personality: non-aggressive, not seeking attention, but it's there and if you take the time to notice it, you'll see it's cute as hell and taunting you that it took you this long to notice just how amazing it's always been.
- Ham and Deadpan Duo: She's the quiet and deadpan to Misty's talkative and energetic.
- Inscrutable Oriental: At least according to Misty, who finds her at times too quiet and mysterious.
- Katanas Are Just Better: She wields the Ancestral Weapon of her family Ryuumusume, or "Dragon's Daughter".
- Ki Manipulation: According to Danny, Colleen has an exceptionally potent natural ability to channel chi. She's training with Danny to master it.
- Lovely Angels: With Misty Knight.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Her name is actually Kaori, but allows people to call her Colleen since it's easier to pronounce, although she does use Kaori while in Japan.
- Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She was born with rare red hair, which in Chinese culture is considered lucky, and she occasionally uses green or blue contact lenses in her otherwise white wardrobe.
