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Edwin Jarvis
Edwin Jarvis
"An ideal butler provides service without being asked."
Species: Human
Citizenship: British
Affiliation(s): British Armed Forces (formerly), Stark Industries
Portrayed By: James D'ArcyForeign voice actors
Appearances: Agent Carter | Avengers: Endgame
Peggy: You're new to espionage, aren't you?
Jarvis: Far from it. Last summer, I caught the cook pocketing the good spoons.
Jarvis: Far from it. Last summer, I caught the cook pocketing the good spoons.
Howard Stark's butler, lent to Peggy in order to aid her in clearing Stark's name. Posthumously ended up becoming the basis for J.A.R.V.I.S., Tony Stark's A.I..
- Adaptational Attractiveness: He's younger and far more attractive than the balding, portly man from the comics. Also, in his cameo in Avengers: Endgame, he appeared to have aged gracefully in 1970, still having kept his hair from The '40s, but with slightly longer '70s Hair complete with the period's exclusive sideburns.
- The tie-in comic to Iron Man establishes that by the time Tony is a child, Jarvis does gain the balding and portly physique of his comic counterpart.
- Adaptational Wimp: His comic counterpart was a veteran of the Royal Air Force and a former boxing champion, and even a few supervillains who broke into the Avengers Mansion had their asses handed to them by him (just ask Toad), and against those he is thoroughly outclassed by, like Mister Hyde, he takes beatings like a champ. Here, he's mostly a Non-Action Guy, though he does have military experience, as well as some (non-combat) flight hours.
- Alternate Self: His past self makes a brief appearance in Avengers: Endgame, tying Agent Carter to the films and being the first ever character from a Marvel TV show to appear in an MCU film.
- Badass Driver: He outruns the explosion that reduces a Roxxon refinery into compressed rubble and only barely escapes.
- Battle Butler: Averted in Season 1. Jarvis doesn't have any combat-related experience whatsoever, but helps out Peggy anyway. Season 2 shows that he's been trying to become this by taking up weightliftng, Judo, and Marquis of Queensbury rules Boxing, though he still has a long way to go.
- Beleaguered Assistant: To Howard Stark, who uses him for everything from breaking up with girlfriends to illegally spying on government organizations.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Jarvis is Stiff Upper Lip and Plucky Comic Relief personified, and yet people often forget that before he was a butler he was a soldier. When Whitney shoots Ana in the stomach, Jarvis puts all of his niceties, quirks, and Britishisms aside and simply opts to hunt her down and kill her. If she hadn't assimilated with Zero Matter the way she did, he would've murdered her on the spot. Despite being called out on this, not once did he feel guilty or remorseful.
- The Bus Came Back: He has a cameo in Avengers: Endgame, several decades after the events of Agent Carter in-story and several years after Agent Carter was cancelled in real life time. His appearance also marks the first time that a character from a Marvel TV-produced series has crossed over into a film.
- Call-Forward: He provides the test message for Howard's verbal burglar alarm, and is quite nonplussed at the idea of his disembodied voice continuing in this role.
- The Cameo: He appears alongside Howard in Endgame when Tony and Steve travel to the '70s to retrieve the Tesseract.
- Chekhov's Skill: His talent as a forger come in handy to get Peggy out of trouble.
- Combat Pragmatist: After taking up fighting training, he decides to make a specialty out of a move that requires him to first be knocked on his back.
- The Comically Serious: While he's an snark expert, Jarvis also causes many laughs by trying to retain his British coolness being stuck in embarrassing situations.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Just before World War II broke out, he was the batmannote to a general. He met his future wife Ana in Budapest, and begged the general to sign letters of transit to get her out to save her from growing antisemitic policies since she was Jewish and Hungary joined Nazi Germany in the axis. He refused, so Jarvis forged the signature himself. He got charged with treason which was dropped (due to Howard Stark's intervention), but that didn't stop him from getting a dishonorable discharge.
- Deadpan Snarker: Matches Carter's snarkiness word for word. He's not just one to her, either. This is his response to being arrested by S.S.R.:Jarvis: Won't this be novel? I haven't been in the back of a car in years.
- Death by Adaptation: The MCU version of Edwin Jarvis has already passed away even before Iron Man. In the comics, he's still very much alive and he is also the butler for The Avengers.
- Decomposite Character: Largely similar to his comic-book counterpart, only removed to an earlier time, thereby disallowing association with the Avengers, which is instead fulfilled by the J.A.R.V.I.S. A.I..
- Deuteragonist: Of Agent Carter.
- Gentle Giant: He's 6'3" and a kindhearted fellow.
- Happily Married: He has a solid relationship with his wife, Ana.
- House Husband: Appears to be this while his wife works, fittingly for a butler.
- The Jeeves: To Howard. In addition to being an excellent and reliable butler, he also has enough scientific knowledge to double as Howard's lab assistant when required.
- Jumped at the Call: He very much enjoys his adventures with Peggy.
- Killed Offscreen: He passed away of old age some time after Howard and Maria Stark's deaths. Tony later named his first AI after him as a tribute.
- Last-Name Basis: With everyone except his wife, as Howard's his boss, he's Peggy's assistant, and everyone else is a veritable stranger to him.
- The Medic: Jarvis's medical knowledge often comes in handy such as stitching up Peggy's wounds.
- "Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: He claims that, aside from "Danger", "Charm" is his middle name.
- Nice Guy: Jarvis is impeccably polite and respectful to everyone, occasional snarking aside.
- Non-Action Guy: At least at first, he doesn't fight.
- Not So Above It All: Whenever he's uncomfortable, his professionalism slips and he becomes endearing.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Jarvis usually both excessively polite and comedic, so seeing him brought to tears by Ana being shot by Whitney Frost in Season 2 is appropriately jarring. Even more drastic is how dark he becomes after this, being consumed by vengeance towards Whitney. This culminates in him straight up gunning down Whitney in cold blood, which, unfortunately, doesn't work.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: He puts on an American accent while giving Daniel Sousa an anonymous tip. It's… not very convincing.
- Parental Substitute: He was this to Tony, since Howard was never around. There's a reason why Tony named his A.I. after him. Also, his wife was rendered barren when Whitney shot her, so Tony was the closest thing to a son that Jarvis could ever have. In Endgame, Tony's briefly seen smiling at Jarvis' past self before he heads off to recoup with Steve, clearly missing his late father figure as much as he misses his late biological father.
- Pinocchio Nose: While driving Peggy to the office to steal the Blitzkrieg Button, he compulsively rubs at his right ear when he's dissembling. Peggy notices it.
- Platonic Life-Partners: He and Peggy eventually become close-knit partners as the series continues.
- Precision F-Strike: When he's trying to convince Peggy that Dooley's death isn't her fault, his Stiff Upper Lip fractures just a bit, blaming it on "Mr. Stark's bloody inventions".
- The Reliable One: Filling a similar role that Pepper would serve to Tony, Jarvis is Howard's most trusted confidant. He also ends up filling this role for Carter.
- Retired Badass: Revealed to have been active during World War II and still have the combat training to back it up.
- Revenge Before Reason: Shooting Whitney Frost in a fit of rage did not help matters.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: What he did to help Ana, as well as assisting Peggy is no doubt illegal but certainly noble.
- Secret-Keeper: For Peggy's non-S.S.R. spywork but with Howard as well. [The both of them seem to share information of something that Peggy doesn't need to know about.
- Servile Snarker: Helpful sarcasm to Peggy and presumably to Howard, as well. When Peggy tells him that she doesn't want his help (after he helped her) he responds, "The ideal butler performs services without being asked."
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Always sharply dressed because he is a professional-minded butler.
- Sidekick: He's Peggy's right-hand-man.
- Silver Fox: Endgame shows that Jarvis aged finely in The '70s.
- Stiff Upper Lip: See his calm and relaxed description to Carter regarding the effects of a weapon that could lay to waste an entire block.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: 6'3, dark-haired, and always impeccably dressed and styled.
- Undying Loyalty:
- To Howard for what he did for him during the war. Not that it stops him from giving Howard a What the Hell, Hero? for lying to Peggy about Steve's blood.
- By "SNAFU", he admits that Howard's inventions have only brought bad things.
- Breaks this a bit in the season one finale by giving Peggy the vial of Steve's blood without informing Howard.
Ana Jarvis
Ana Jarvis
Species: Human
Citizenship: Hungarian
Portrayed By: Lotte VerbeekForeign voice actors
Appearances: Agent Carter
Edwin Jarvis' wife.
- Ambiguously Jewish: Inverted. She is openly Jewish, which is what led to her (then future) husband Edwin Jarvis having to rescue her from being deported in Nazi-occupied Hungary.
- Break the Cutie: Averted, Ana has a pretty traumatic time of it before and during the series, culminating in her being shot in the stomach and losing any hope of having children someday. But, even though she's upset by the news, she continues to look on the bright side, and it seems that the bad things that happen to her never manage to change who she is.
- Canon Foreigner: Jarvis wasn't married in the comics.
- The Gadfly: She loves her husband... and loves ruffling his oh-so-British feathers by snogging him in front of guests. She also doesn't resist the opportunity to poke fun at Peggy and Edwin's "compromising" sparring position.
- The Ghost: Does not appear on-screen in the first season.
- Happily Married: She and Jarvis are downright adorable together. The strength of their marriage is shown when Ana is shot by Whitney. Jarvis is downright devastated and fears for his wife's life, even shoots Whitney in retaliation. During her recovery, he vows to protect her with his life and makes sure she is well taken care of even on the mission. When he tries to stay behind with Ana while Peggy and the others deal with Whitney, Ana shows her support of his adventures by insisting he go with Peggy to stop Whitney. She can also tell he's hiding something... that Ana had her womb punctured by the gunshot and now they can't have children.
- Hidden Depths: When we finally meet her, she seems to be a very typical, if not even air-headedly naive housewife. In reality, however, she's very smart and very much integrated with Edwin Jarvis's unusual line of work.
- Informed Judaism: She is Jewish, which is why she fled Hungary when the Nazis took over.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: Downplayed in that Jarvis and Ana aren't actively trying for a baby and apparently haven't even decided if they want kids yet, but the news that she's now infertile is upsetting to them, though their relationship doesn't seem to suffer because of it.
- Nice Girl: Practically everyone, in-universe and in the fandom, is in agreement that Ana is just lovely.
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: She's supposed to be Hungarian but the actress uses her natural Dutch accent.
- Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: Her job is never actually stated but it appears to be outside Stark's house. Yet, she lives there and occasionally accepts phone calls and greets with "Stark Household". It doesn't help that she never even shares any scene with Howard Stark.
- The Pollyanna: For someone who's survived Nazi-occupied Hungary, she's very bubbly and stable. In fact, she's very hands-on with her husband when they have intimate moments... and even when Peggy's watching.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: She and Jarvis have been married for at least a couple of years when the series starts, but it's obvious from the get-go that they're still very much in the honeymoon phase, with no intention of leaving it behind anytime soon. On Ana's side it's partly serious, partly Played for Laughs to gently mock the uptight sensibilities of any nearby Brits.
- Two First Names: Jarvis is also used as a first name.
- The Voice: In her first appearance, we hear her calling to Jarvis from offscreen but we never see her.
- War Refugees: Escaped Hungary due to the Nazi occupation.
Jason Wilkes
Jason Wilkes
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Reggie AustinForeign voice actors
Appearances: Agent Carter
"Do you want to be thunder struck?"
A Self-Made Man and a genius scientist working for Isodyne Energy, who unwillingly becomes involved in a mysterious murder case that will change his life forever.
- Adaptational Heroism: He shares the same name as a villain in the comics. While he's done some less-than-reputable things such as selling out to Whitney Frost and threatening to shoot Peggy so he can better understand Zero Matter and his presumed new abilities, he shows remorse to Peggy, doesn't want to hurt others, and seems to be more of a victim than a villain.
- Age Lift: His comic counterpart was an older man.
- And I Must Scream: Is rendered invisible and intangible by the Zero Matter explosion. Howard Stark does devise a chemical that can make him visible in short bursts, but any time else he literally cannot even speak due to having intangible vocal chords.
- Badass Bookworm: He served in the Navy during the war as an engineer, and can still handle himself.
- Containment Field: With Stark's lab, he's able to build chamber that lets him turn solid again inside of it. Another dose of Zero Matter from Whitney Frost makes it so he can step outside of it and yet remain tangible, though not permanently.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: In-Universe, this is the reason he's hesitant to betray Isodyne, since - even though they're run by the bad guys - they were the only scientific laboratory that was willing to hire a black man into R&D after the war.
- Love Interest: For Peggy in Season 2.
- Never Found the Body: The explosion caused by Zero Matter appeared to have vaporized him into another plane of reality. However, in reality it just made him both invisible and intangible.
- Race Lift: He's a white man in the comics, but is African-American here.
- Self-Made Man: He was born into a family of agricultural workers in Southern California's orange groves, and was a physicist with a doctorate and history of military service by the time of his adulthood. Extra impressive, considering the prejudice he experiences as a black man in The '40s due to
Values Dissonance. However, Whitney Frost claims none of this mattered to Isodyne; they hired him only because they needed someone expendable to blame/kill should they had to coverup their stockpile of Zero Matter. - Skewed Priorities: The first thing he does when he finds an unknown woman wandering around his workplace? Take her to his lab to try out his moonshine and gush over the science of chemical manipulation. Then actually ask who she is and what she's doing there.
- Spider-Sense: His connection to Zero Matter allows him to sense where its locations, letting Peggy's team seek bodies laced with it, including Whitney Frost.
- Token Minority: He's the only character with a black actor to be listed in the main cast.
- Unexpected Character: Jason Wilkes was extremely minor in the comics with only one appearance ever. Even Leet Brannis appeared more than once.
Anton Vanko
Anton Vanko
Click here to see Anton in Iron Man 2
Species: Human
Citizenship: Russian
Portrayed By: Yevgeni Lazarev (Iron Man 2), Costa Ronin (Agent Carter)
Appearances: Iron Man 2 | Agent Carter
Howard Stark's Russian partner in inventions, until a falling out led to Vanko being deported to Siberia. He is also the father of Ivan Vanko.
- Call-Forward: His appearance in Agent Carter as Howard Stark's partner, as in Iron Man 2 his death drives his son Ivan to seek revenge on Tony Stark.
- The Lab Rat: For Stark and then for Peggy. Jarvis introduces her to him when she needs help tracking down the bad guys from the remains of the nitramine bomb.
- Token Enemy Minority: A Russian-American character, on the protagonists' side, unconnected to the Russian Leviathan organization.
Former Employees (Spider-Man: Far From Home spoilers)
Other Employees
Pym Technologies
Former Associates
Darren Cross / Yellowjacket
- See his page.
Frank
Frank
"So it's a suit."
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Pym Technologies
Portrayed By: Joe ChrestForeign voice actors
Appearances: Ant-Man
"Unfortunately we can't just do whatever we want. Would be nice, though, right? But there are laws."
A senior executive at Pym Technologies.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Despite the potential profit to be gained from selling the Yellowjacket, he's against it for moral and legal reasons.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Frank is killed early on to establish both how unpredictably dangerous Cross is and that he hasn't perfected the technology yet.
- Terminal Transformation: Cross uses the imperfect shrinking tech to fatally shrink him down to goop... then mop up his liquid remains and flush them down the toilet.
Rand Enterprises
Rand Family
Wendell Rand
Wendell Rand
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: David Furr
Appearances: Iron Fist
The owner of Rand Enterprises, husband of Heather and father of Danny Rand.
- Adaptational Wimp: Is just a normal man here, as opposed to his comic book counterpart who was revealed (though many years later) was a skilled martial artist who won the right to become the Iron Fist himself.
- He Knows Too Much: He was killed because he found out about Harold Meachum's deals with The Hand.
- Posthumous Character: He's dead by the time of the show's main narrative.
Heather Rand
Heather Duncan Rand
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Victoria Haynes
Appearances: Iron Fist
The mother of Danny Rand and wife of Wendell Rand.
- Thrown Out the Airlock: Was sucked out of the plane as it was plummeting due to the Explosive Decompression. Danny later admits to Colleen and Claire that he always harbored a hope that his mother was somehow still alive.
- Posthumous Character: She's dead by the time of the show's main narrative.
Danny Rand
- See his page
Meachum Family
Rand Employees
Lawrence Wilkins
Lawrence Wilkins
"Don't expect anyone here to be listening to a kid who got his MBA from a Himalayan monastery."
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Clifton Davis
Appearances: Iron Fist
A member of the Rand Enterprises board of directors.
- Boom, Headshot!: Harold Meachum shoots him in the head, and stages his death to look like a suicide.
- Canon Foreigner: There's no Lawrence Wilkins in the comics.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He is embezzling from Rand and hires prostitutes with company money. He also wanted to sell a life-saving medicine at ten times the production cost.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite having some skeletons of his own, Lawrence has kids, and a nephew in the hospital, all of whom he loves. Harold actually asks if he wants to preserve his image as a loving uncle/father before capping him in the head.
- Fatal Family Photo: Has a photograph of his son on his desk.
- Irony: Tries to offer Joy and Ward a severance package in the same amount that they had tried to buy Danny out for.
- Never Suicide: Harold covers up his murder of him by staging it to look like suicide. Everyone buys it.
- Office Golf: Has a putt-putt hole in his office.
- Smug Snake: A backstabbing, swindling, no-good man that was all smiles and polite belittling of Danny and anybody that was against the bottom line.
- Trespassing to Talk: On the victim end of this, courtesy of Harold Meachum.
Rand Employees
Roxxon Corporation
See White Collar Criminals for further information.
Ivan Hess
Ivan Hess
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Tim Kang
Appearances: Cloak and Dagger
Senior Engineer in Fluid Dynamics for Roxxon. He's been catatonic ever since the rig explosion.
- And I Must Scream: Trapped in an endless mental loop for nearly 8000 years. He has to abandon most of his memories just to cope.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Unlike his higher-ups, he's a humble man who works hand-by-hand with workers under his authority.
- Orphean Rescue: Tyrone and Tandy go into his mind to try to break him out of his catatonia.
- Unwitting Pawn: Doesn't know how truly corrupt Roxxon really is.
Mina Hess
Mina Hess
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Ally Maki, Hannah Hardin (young)
Appearances: Cloak and Dagger
An enviromental engineer for Roxxon, following in her father's foodsteps.
- Friend to Bugs: She likes bumblebees, having written her thesis on colony collapse and makes a point of looking out for them on her walks. When Tandy starts taking people's hopes, including Mina's, the first sign of how badly this affects them is Mina immediately killing a bee.
- Nature Lover: Comes with the territory of being an environmental engineer. Tandy's vision of her greatest hopes shows her tending a very beautiful garden.
- Nice Girl: Absent any supernatural personality-altering effects, Mina is a kind-hearted person who wants to preserve both the environment and human life. One of the reasons she becomes angry with Tandy for posing as her intern and lying to her is because she would have been willing to help Tandy out if Tandy had just been honest with her in the first place.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her new drilling system is spread out across the entire city rather than one concentrated spot, making it safer to use and more environmentally friendly than the original rig. Unfortunately, her Roxxon superiors don't care about her precautions and cut corners on vital parts of it, and now the entire city is at risk.
- Unwitting Pawn: Doesn't know how truly corrupt Roxxon really is.
Stan Bartlett
Stan Bartlett
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Preston Vanderslice
Appearances: Cloak and Dagger
An employee at Roxxon.
- Pointy-Haired Boss: He is an incompetent low-level executive that prefers to cut corners.
X-Con Security Consultants
See Scott Lang's Allies for Luis, Kurt, and Dave
Isodyne Energy
Calvin Chadwick
- See the Criminal & Terrorist Organizations page
Jason Wilkes
- See Stark Industries
Jane Scott
Jane Scott
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By:
Appearances: Agent Carter
A particle physicist at Isodyne.
- The Mistress: She had an affair with Calvin Chadwick.
- Posthumous Character: She first appears as a corpse. She died after being exposed to Zero Matter a.k.a. the Darkforce, at the Isodyne particle acelerator.
WHiH World News
In General
A cable news network. It is a subsidiary of Vistacorp
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: WHiH fills a role similar to CNN, even though CNN also exists in the MCU.
Christine Everhart
Christine Everhart
"All I'm looking for is a straight answer."
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Leslie Bibb
Appearances: Iron Man | Iron Man 2 | Newsfront With Christine Everhart (Ant-Man and Captain America: Civil War viral marketing)
"And what do you say to your other nickname, the Merchant of Death?"
A reporter from Vanity Fair. She has strong feelings against Tony Stark's weapons development, and feels he is a war profiteer. Despite this, sexual tension pops up between the two. She later transitions to television and new media as the host of WHiH World News.
- Ascended Extra: After having a few minutes of screentime in the first two Iron Man movies, she takes a role as the host of the Web Original WHiH World News videos on YouTube.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: It takes just a minute and a half of arguing with Tony to pull her into bed with him. However, it doesn't go anywhere past that night.
- The Bus Came Back: After a five year absence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she reappeared in this video
marking the MCU's first foray into Web Original content. - Disproportionate Retribution: After she realizes Tony used her for a one-night stand in the first movie, she feels pretty damn upset. Upset enough, in fact, to take it out on Pepper, who had only showed up to provide her with a fresh change of clothes and a ride to wherever she wanted to go.After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.
- Fanservice Extra: She's in Iron Man for just five minutes and two of those minutes are spent in a Modesty Bedsheet or just a shirt.
- Good is Not Nice: She's quite rude, but she knows what's right and what's wrong.
- Intrepid Reporter: Played with; Christine clearly wants to be this, but the fact that she ends up sleeping with Tony not long after self-righteously calling him out as the 'Merchant of Death' alone indicates that she's probably not as intrepid as she wants people to think. She generally comes off as being a bit smug and incompetent. Then again, she is the one to reveal to Tony that his company is selling weapons to the villains.
- Jerkass Has a Point: After Tony escapes from capture, he agrees with her that his weapons development has gotten out of hand.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Pretty rude to both Tony and Pepper, yet has a strong sense of right and wrong.
- Operation: Jealousy: It's implied she started dating Justin Hammer in order to make Tony jealous. By then he doesn't care.
- The Resenter: After she realizes Tony used her for a night, she decides to take it out on Pepper. She's clearly out of her league.Christine: After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.Pepper: I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?
- Romantic False Lead: She's introduced before Pepper, who ends up being Tony's true love.
- Stealth Insult: Often the victim of this, especially from Pepper. In addition to the above "trash" one...Hammer: [Christine]'s actually doing a big spread on me for Vanity Fair. I thought I'd throw her a bone, you know. Right?
Pepper: Right. Well, she did quite a... spread on Tony last year.
Tony: And she wrote a story as well. - Strawman News Media: During her coverage of Scott Lang robbing VistaCorp, she says that there is no proof to back up his claims that VistaCorp was stealing from its customers. The station that airs her show is owned by VistaCorp, which Scott is quick to point out when he is interviewed. After the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, she says the Avengers should be held accountable for the damage caused during their fights even though Will Adams points out if that it weren't for them, everyone on Earth would be dead.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Seems to throw her Good is Not Nice and Hidden Heart of Gold side out of the window after she became Strawman News Media. Her resentment on Tony may play a part on this and extend to the other heroes. Even before that, she tried so hard to make Tony jealous by dating his Butt-Monkey so-called "rival", which fails miserably.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Her first meeting with Tony turns from interviewing to accusing, calling him the Merchant of Death and a war profiteer. When he returns from capture and tells her he's stopped Stark Industries weapons manufacturing, she tells him that's still not enough, because there are still plenty of Stark-built weapons already in the hands of terrorists. Of course that was Obadiah Stane's doing, not Tony's. Though it does give Tony the idea of going to Afghanistan to deal with this problem.
- You Just Told Me: "I never said you were a superhero."
Chess Roberts
Chess Roberts
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Olivia Munn
Appearances: Iron Man 2
A reporter at WHiH.
- Adaptational Skimpiness: She wears more revealing and casual clothing than her comic books counterpart. Justified by the nature of the events that the comics and film versions cover.
Will Adams
Will Adams
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Al Madrigal
Appearances: Newsfront With Christine Everhart (Captain America: Civil War viral marketing)
A political correspondent and analyst at WHiH.
- Canon Foreigner: Has no counterpart in the main Marvel Universe.
- Intrepid Reporter: He's sent to cover a confrontation between the Avengers and Crossbones in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Only Sane Man: He seems to be the only one at WHiH to side with the heroes and their necessity just by pointing out obvious facts, while Christine Everhart takes a Strawman News Media approach. After the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, when Christine says the Avengers should be held accountable for the damage caused during their fights, Will points out if that it weren't for them, everyone on Earth would be dead.
Jackson Norris
Jackson Norris
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: N/A
Appearances: Newsfront With Christine Everhart (Captain America: Civil War viral marketing)
A reporter at WHiH News.
- Decomposite Character: The comics Jackson Norriss is made into this character and Ten Rings member Jackson Norriss (with double "s")
- Intrepid Reporter: He's sent to cover a confrontation between the Avengers and Crossbones in Lagos, Nigeria.
Callisto Aerospace
Louise Fisher
Louise Fisher
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Ellen Woglom
Appearances: Inhumans
A (human) scientist at Callisto Aerospace who meets the Inhuman Royal Family.
- Audience Surrogate: She serves this purpose in the main cast.
- Canon Foreigner: Louise doesn't exist in the comics.
- I Want My Jet Pack: Louise's motivation. She actually carries her father's ashes in a necklace shaped like an Apollo rocket.He spent his entire life wanting to go to the Moon, and NASA, they didn't know if they were gonna pick pilots or scientists. But guess what? They picked pilots. And my father, the scientist, he never got to go.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: She's a scientist, and wears glasses to signify it.
- Token Human: Of the main cast.
George Ashland
George Ashland
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Tom Wright
Appearances: Inhumans
Louise's supervisor at Callisto Aerospace.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite the many, many, many incidents of alien involvement in the MCU, he does not believe Louise's theory that a hoof stomped the rover.
Declan Research
Evan Declan
Doctor Evan Declan
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Henry Ian Cusick
Appearances: Inhumans
A geneticist specialised in Inhumans that collaborates with Maximus.
- Distressed Dude: Got taken as a hostage by both Auran and then later the Royal Family.
- For Science!: Has no ill intentions and does all of his research for genetic studies.
- Killed Off for Real: A mindless Gorgon kills the poor guy accidentally when he happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Unwitting Pawn: Maximus supported his research without telling him who or what he really was.
Atreus Plastics
In General
- Adaptational Wimp: In the mainstream comics, Atreus Plastics produces (plastic) explosives, not actual plastics.
- The Cameo: Atreus Plastics's logo shows up in the first season finale Daredevil, on a truck employed by a Fisk's goons to break him out of police custody.
Mark Higgins
Mark Higgins
Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Portrayed By: Jeorge Bennett Watson
Appearances: Luke Cage
The CEO of Atreus Plastics, largest black-owned plastics company in the world.
- Category Traitor: According to Mariah Dillard, he's never collaborated with any cause for the development of Harlem or the African-American community. That being said, he refused to sell Atreus to Glenn Industries because he wanted the company to remain black-owned.
- Decapitation Presentation: Bushmaster kills him and puts his severed head, along with Cockroach and Ray-Ray's heads, on display in the entrance of Mariah's clinic.
- Dirty Old Man: He lets himself get seduced by a girl young enough to be his daughter, allowing Mariah to blackmail him.
- Honey Trap: The victim of one, as Mariah has new hostess Stephanie Miller seduce Higgins, then blackmails him into voting for Atreus to be bought out by Glenn Industries. Since Stephanie is a plant by Bushmaster, it also makes Higgins an immediate target for him to kill when declaring war on Mariah.
U-GIN Genetics Infinite R&D
Dr. Helen Cho
Dr. Helen Cho
"Unlike you, I don't have a lot of time for parties... Will Thor be there?"
Species: Human
Citizenship: South Korean
Affiliation(s): U-GIN, S.H.I.E.L.D.
Portrayed By: Claudia KimForeign voice actors
Appearances: Avengers: Age of Ultron
"This is the next thing, Tony. Your clunky metal suits are going to be left in the dust."
A world-renowned South Korean geneticist and friend of Tony Stark who aids the Avengers.
- Ascended Extra: Helen Cho is an extremely minor character in the comics, and was introduced as a Posthumous Character to boot. The idea of making her a famous scientist and ally of the Avengers was created exclusively for the film.
- Asian and Nerdy: She's a South Korean scientist.
- Brainwashed: Ultron uses Loki's scepter and hypnotizes her into creating a synthetic body he can upload himself into, using a new fusion material composed of vibranium and her synthetic tissue. Wanda uses her powers to snap Dr. Cho out of her trance when she finds out Ultron's true plans.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She hasn't appeared since Age of Ultron.
- Composite Character: Her intelligence seems to come from Amadeus Cho, her son in the comics, and her lab work with Banner suggests a hint of Kate Waynesboro. She also takes Professor Horton's role as the Vision's creator.
- Deadpan Snarker: Snarks at Tony for spending the majority of his time partying and not on his work. She even makes a quip at Ultron!
- Locking Macgyver In The Store Cupboard: Helen is seriously wounded by Ultron when the latter breaks into her lab, leading some viewers to think that she died. However, she is briefly spotted with the Avengers at the movie's end, which may seem like an Unexplained Recovery, until you realize she was right in the middle of her lab with tissue regeneration equipment.
- The Medic: Helen serves as an in-house physician of sorts at Avengers Tower, with the help of her biology and genetics research.
- Not So Above It All: When Tony asks her if she's attending the evening party, she snarks that unlike him she has priorities and doesn't spend all of her time partying... Until she asks if Thor is attending, which made her reconsider.
- Remember the New Guy?: She's a close friend of Tony and Bruce, but has never been seen or mentioned in any of the prior films.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Despite her comic counterpart being a Posthumous Character, Helen survives the movie and goes on to help found the new Avengers compound.
- Uncertain Doom: Unlike everyone else on Earth affected by Thanos's snap, it is unknown whether or not Helen survived the snap or if she was dusted off-screen like Shuri was.
