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United States Military

United States Army

    Joe Greller 

General Joseph "Joe" Greller

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Peter Mensah

Appearances: The Incredible Hulk

"I pulled you one Ace. Emil Blonsky, born in Russia, raised in England, and on loan from SOCOM from the Royal Marines."

An officer of the U.S. Army tasked with putting together a task force to capture the Hulk when Thunderbolt Ross tracks Bruce Banner to Rio de Janeiro.


    Gilmore Hodge 

Pvt. Gilmore Hodge

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"What's with the accent, Queen Victoria? I thought I was signing up for the U.S. Army."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Lex Shrapnel

Appearances: Captain America: The First Avenger

Colonel Phillips: Hodge passed every test we gave him. He's big, he's fast. He obeys orders, he's a soldier.
Abraham Erskine: He's a bully.

A member of the United States Army during World War II, assigned to the Strategic Scientific Reserve.


  • Adaptational Heroism: He's a sexist bully, but he never betrays his country to the Nazis.
  • The Bully: Hodge enjoys picking on people he considers beneath him, like Steve. This trait is exactly why Dr. Erskine doesn't choose Hodge for his procedure; he has already seen what a bully turns into with the Serum.
  • Foil: He's the polar opposite of Steve, whereas Steve isn't a perfect soldier but a good man, Hodge is a perfect soldier, but not a good man. Steve is physically weak before taking the serum, Hodge is physically fit. While Steve is unprejudiced, Hodge is misogynistic.
  • Jerkass: He's a sexist bully with a vicious streak.
  • Just Following Orders: Phillips singles him out as a preferred candidate for Erskine's serum due to his ability to follow orders.
  • Pet the Dog: He isn't above applauding his former bullying victim after Steve rescues four hundred POWs.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero: Hodge isn't much of a hero, but he's not exactly on the Nazi level. All the same, he's a crude sexist who belittles Peggy Carter with lewd comments but respectfully obeys Colonel Phillips.

    Isaac Lange 

Isaac Lange

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Jordan Mahome

Appearances: The Punisher

A member of Curtis Hoyle's support group who is recruited into Anvil.


  • Boom, Headshot!: Lewis shoots him through the door of his apartment.
  • Eye Scream: Lewis shoots him through a peephole as he's looking through it with his right eye.
  • Mauve Shirt: He gets a few appearances before he is killed off.
  • Mugged for Disguise: Lewis kills Isaac and steals his uniform so he can infiltrate the hotel for his assassination attempt on Karen Page and Senator Ori.
  • Private Military Contractors: Recruited into Anvil by Billy Russo, though not used for any dirty business.
  • Token Good Teammate: Unlike the other Anvil mercenaries, he never gets involved in any criminal or unethical activity.

    O'Connor 

O'Connor

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Delaney Williams

Appearances: The Punisher

A member of Curtis Hoyle's support group who claims to be a Vietnam veteran who won the Silver Star.


  • Angry White Man: He claims that the suppressed minority in America are the Christian white males and that the government is planning to take their guns. He also says that the Jews are controlling the internet.
  • Asshole Victim: The first casualty of Lewis' rampage, when Lewis confronts him over his stolen valor. If not for the fact that Lewis then decides to use his house as the lab where he creates various explosive devices that hurt innocent people, absolutely nobody would have cared about his end.
  • Blatant Lies: When Lewis confronts him with the fact he never served in Vietnam or ever saw combat, O'Connor randomly blurts the Jews altered his military record. Moments later when he doesn't know the name of an airbase in Vietnam and Lewis tells him, he acts as he knew all along.
  • The Corrupter: Whatever he was getting out of going to the support group, the result was preying on vulnerable people to make himself feel more important. However... veterans are not toys that meet regulatory safety standards for use by any old Smug Snake.
  • Dirty Coward: When he and Lewis are handing out NRA pamphlets at a government building, he walks away immediately and leaves Lewis to deal with the cop that then arrests him.
  • Hate Sink: There is no redeeming value whatsoever about his character, who even leaving aside his deplorable political views is a cowardly Phony Veteran who criticizes actual combat veterans of being weak for suffering from post-traumatic stress.
  • Hated by All: Curtis's support group can barely tolerate him, with the room instantly devolving into eye-rolls, groans and insults the moment he opens his mouth. The only exceptions are Lewis, who is simply too new and naive to know better, and Curtis himself, to tries at all times to maintain a positive and healing atmosphere. Eventually, even Curtis becomes fed up with his bullshit and digs into his service record.
  • Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: When Wilson asks him where he was stationed while confronting him over his Stolen Valor, his response is awkward silence. He only makes up excuses after Lewis answers the question for him.
  • Human Pincushion: His eventual fate.
  • Hypocrite: This is a Phony Veteran who never saw combat yet belittles real veterans dealing with PTSD as being 'pussies'.
  • Jerkass: He's callous, loud-mouthed and completely unpleasant.
  • Men Don't Cry: He has no sympathy for those suffering from mental health problems, dismissing them as not being tough enough and sneering at people like Curtis who try to help them while generally seeing the modern generation as weak compared to his own. This bites him hard in the ass later on when an already unstable Lewis confronts and kills him.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: On top of being a manipulative liar, he's also a racist and anti-semite with a number of far-right wing views.
  • Phony Veteran: Played with. Curtis is suspicious enough of O'Connor to look his record up after Lewis is arrested, and determines that, while he was enlisted and did serve his full (if brief) term until discharged, he never actually served in Vietnam as he claimed. He didn't sign up until 1977 and, in fact, had never even seen any combat, let alone done anything even remotely worthy of the Silver Star.
  • Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: He passes himself off as one of these. Turns out he's not the badass he claims to be, lied about almost everything about his service, and is apparently just using the support group to find others to recruit into whatever the hell he thinks he's doing.
  • Smug Snake: Oā€™Connor manipulates and throws around his poisonous political agenda and falsified Vietnam service as if it matters, but is just an arrogant, whiny Phony Veteran whoā€™s never seen a lick of Vietnam in his life and only attends the support group so he can feel special. Unfortunately for him, after manipulating a dangerously unhinged Lewis Wilson into following his political lunacy, he becomes a cautionary tale after he finds out the hard way why you shouldnā€™t toy around with a mentally unstable ex-marine.
  • Toxic Friend Influence: He's a very toxic influence who is largely responsible for pushing Lewis Wilson into becoming a bombmaking terrorist.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Oā€™Connor really should have known better than to try and manipulate somebody as evidently unstable as Lewis.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Granted, Lewis was already pretty unbalanced, but it's O'Connor's manipulations that end up pushing Lewis over the edge to commit domestic terrorism.
  • The Vietnam Vet: Invokes it to lend credence to his rhetoric, but it is a lie. He never served in Vietnam or ever saw combat.

    John Bruno 

John Bruno

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Jamal Duff

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

A former military assassin put under psychiatric custody after S.H.I.E.L.D. deemed him too dangerous and unstable because he grew obssessed with finding creative ways to kill.


  • Always a Bigger Fish: Despite being a dangerous killer, he turns out to be no match for Bobbi Morse.
  • Psycho for Hire: His job description.
  • Scary Black Man: An African-American assassin who is so dangerous that he's put in custody by the very people he worked for.
  • Two First Names: "John" and "Bruno" are both popular as given names.

    Mary Walker 

Mary Walker / "Mary" / "Walker"

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Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): US Army (formerly)

Portrayed By: Alice Eve

Appearances: Iron Fist

"Know what it's like to wake up and not know where you are or where you've been or what you said to whom? Do you know what it's like to wake up hungry because some other part of you didn't bother to eat because she wanted to paint pretty pictures instead?"

A private investigator, mercenary, and former US Army special ops soldier with dissociative identity disorder.


  • Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, Typhoid Mary is an obsessive, psychotic, amoral Stalker with a Crush who's after Daredevil. Here, she's morally neutral and only works as a mercenary to get the money she needs to find a place where she can finally be at peace.
  • Adapted Out: In the comics, she is a mutant with low-level psychic and fire powers in addition to her split personalities. She doesn't have any powers here.
  • Alternate Identity Amnesia: Neither Walker nor Mary have access to each other's memories. Truth in Television for DID. Becomes a plot point since both alters thought it was the other one who managed to escape from Sokovia, only to realize there is a bloodthirsty third alter and neither Mary nor Walker knows what triggers her.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's not clear which alter is actually the original. Mary seems younger and less experienced, but it also seems like her artistic tendencies were the only thing that let her cope with the horror of her capture in Sokovia. In her video message, Mary thanks Walker for protecting her in "Green Bay and Sokovia", which implies that Mary's childhood in Wisconsin is where her DID first started, and much of Walker's personality seems typical of the kind of harsh, ruthless alter created to help a child overcome and escape abuse, but she also seems to be the dominant persona — one who was able to join the US Army and serve for a number of years.
  • Anti-Villain: Whether as Mary or Walker, she's just a troubled woman fighting for control of herself.
  • Awesome by Analysis: Walker spent two months monitoring Danny's fighting style and observing how the Fist worked to come up with a plan to take him down.
  • Badass Normal: She has no powers in either personality, and yet as Walker she manages to fight toe-to-toe with the Immortal Iron Fist.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me:
    • Mary takes a liking to Danny for this reason and tries to warn him about Walker by leaving her surveillance photos with him.
    • Walker seems to take a liking to Joy, who trusted her to do her job even after learning of her DID. She goes out of her way more than once to give Joy advice and to help her when it was technically no longer her job. However when Joy wants to end their partnership she refuses to leave, putting herself in the same coercive partnership that Joy had with Davos.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: With Davos in Season 2 of Iron Fist (2017). While Davos becomes the bigger threat after he steals the Iron Fist from Danny, Walker's actions still put her in conflict with Danny and his allies.
  • Character Tics: Walker has a tendency to stand at parade rest (legs apart, hands folded behind her back, a classic military stance) while speaking with someone. She also cants her head to the side when talking with someone while wary or agitated.
  • Combat Pragmatist: As befits an assassin. Walker has no problem pulling out swords in a fistfight, striking at existing wounds, laying ambushes, or drugging her opponents to win.
  • Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: She's never referred to as Typhoid Mary, which is her alias in the comics. However, she refers to the actions of her potential third alter as a "bloody mess", a reference to her Bloody Mary alter in the comics.
  • Composite Character: While Typhoid Mary is an established character in the Marvel canon, the plot of an antagonistic organization hiring an agent with DID to fight a magic-powered hero whom they ultimately join forces with is pretty much a beat-for-beat recreation of how Moon Knight was introduced in Werewolf by Night. According to Word of God, Maryā€™s character was originally going to be Moon Knight, but was changed as his inclusion wouldā€™ve made the show feel "too busy."
  • Deadpan Snarker: Walker has flat affect and an acid tongue.
  • Duality Motif: Has heterochromia (her right is green, the left is blue) and a Split Personality.
  • Evil Is Not a Toy: Joy finds that Davos won't end their partnership because he wants to use her money and influence for his own schemes, so Joy hires Walker to deal with him, only to find herself in exactly the same position with Walker, who refuses to take her money and leave because she wants use Joy in the same way.
  • Evil Redhead: Walker is a cold-blooded mercenary who has no qualms about breaking the law if the price is right. It's not clear if she would have taken the hit on anyone other than Davos, but she had no problem assaulting and kidnapping Danny. There's also the question of just how violent her third alter might be.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change:
    • The way she keeps her hair is the main way to tell which personality is active at the moment: Mary keeps her long hair loose and sweeps her bangs to one side, while Walker wears it in a bun or ponytail and immediately musses her bangs upon taking control.
    • Invoked in Mary's self portrait where one half has silky straight hair while the other has wild dreadlocks. This is actually a shout-out to the comics where her hair changes textures that way depending on which alter is dominant.
  • Fiery Redhead: Averted. Walker is stone cold, while Mary is a sweetheart. Walker can turn violent in an instant, but she's ruthless and calculating rather than hot-tempered.
  • Forgets to Eat: Mary often gets so preoccupied with her drawing that she forgets to eat, which annoys Walker to no end because it means that she regularly wakes up hungry.
  • Helpless Good Side: Mary is just a nice, shy girl-next-door type from the Midwest, and is completely incapable of violence. Walker is the one that's dangerous, so she's taken it upon herself to protect them both. Not without resentment on Walker's part, since Mary, while a talented artist, would rather draw than work or eat properly.
  • Hired Guns: Somewhere between this and the lighter end of Psycho for Hire. She came up on a list of operatives Rand had on file. Her exact job title is unclear, but she's a former soldier who doesn't come cheap or ask many questions. Over the course of the second season, her jobs include investigation, surveillance, kidnapping, bodyguard duty, and (attempted) assassination.
  • Jekyll & Hyde: Played with. At first it seems rather clear-cut that Mary is the good side while Walker is the bad side, but as the season progresses it becomes clear Mary has her demons while Walker isn't without a few more noble qualities. Subverted, in that the show hints at a third alter, the one who slaughtered her way out of that hellhole in Sokovia.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Walker isn't completely amoral or disaffectionate; after Davos shatters Danny's leg, she immediately prioritizes getting Danny to safety, calling an ambulance, and stabilizing him over actually finishing the job she was hired for.
  • Nice Girl: Mary is genuinely warm and goodhearted, if a bit scattered at times.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted. No relation to Trish Walker.
  • Only in It for the Money: At first, Walker is here just to collect a paycheck. Over the season it becomes more personal.
  • Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In the comics she's more associated with Daredevil, and much more villainous and overtly sexual in those appearances.
  • Shadow Archetype: She's one for Jessica Jones. Both are very skilled investigators and powerful fighters with Dark And Troubled Pasts that involved them getting raped before escaping and killing their tormentors. However, Jessica Jones was mentally strong enough to keep her sanity and identity (though she took the habit of heavy drinking), while Mary's mental state shatters and develops two (maybe three) Split Personalities as a result.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: As a soldier, she was captured, tortured, and raped in Sokovia for two years.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: Walker maintains a calm, impassive tone (almost whispering at times) even when talking about and committing acts of startling brutality.
  • Split Personality: Switches between two main personalities: "Mary", a soft-spoken artist, and "Walker", a violent bruiser. And then there's "Bloody Mary", a bloodthirsty killer
  • Split Personality Make Over: Besides the change in hair, Mary and Walker have notable differences in wardrobe (Mary dresses in feminine, fashionable outfits while Walker prefers utilitarian clothing and military gear), body language (Mary is shy and defensive while Walker is confident) and voice (Mary has a warm tone while Walker has some dangerous whispering). They also have conflicting life goals — Mary wants to build a life in the city and escape her midwestern upbringing, while Walker dreams of living by herself in a house in the desert.
  • Stalker without a Crush: Played with. Walker has been stalking, studying, and photographing Danny with the intent to capture him, and does not appear to have a crush on him. Her Mary alter, on the other hand, very obviously has a crush on Danny but isn't stalking him; them being two facets of the same person, however, makes her appear to be a Stalker with a Crush at first until her DID is revealed.
  • The Stoic: Walker has the Thousand-Yard Stare and flat affect of someone suffering intense PTSD.
  • Thousand-Yard Stare: Walker has a habit of staring unblinkingly into the middle distance with her mismatched eyes.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Becomes this — specifically in her Walker persona — when Danny offers to pay her more than what Joy does.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Walker is the tough, no-nonsense tomboy while Mary is a shy but sweet girly girl.
  • Tomboyish Ponytail: Walker keeps her hair in a loose bun or tight ponytail, while Mary wears her hair down.
  • Trigger Phrase: Walker surfaces when Mary is in danger or under intense stress — any time her adrenaline spikes. Walker's triggers for reverting to Mary, on the other hand, are rushing water and flickering light. As noted, the latter are everywhere, which makes Walker's life... difficult, to say the least.
  • Two First Names: "Walker" can also be used as a first name.
  • Wild Card: Ultimately she's on no side but her own, so her allegiance shifts at the drop of a hat. This even applies to Mary, who sabotages the initial attempt to capture Davos because succeeding would give Walker the means to take them both to a little cabin in the desert (read: where it doesn't rain often), if she has her way, never letting Mary surface again.

    Lemar Hoskins / Battlestar 

Sergeant-Major Lemar Hoskins, US Army / Battlestar

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"Time to go to work."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Hoskins Family Flowers, Custer's Grove High School (formerly), US Army, DOD, Global Repatriation Council

Portrayed By: ClƩ Bennett

Appearances: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

"Listen, this suitā€¦ it comes with expectations, brother. You can't justā€¦ punch your way out of problems anymore, y'know?"

An old high school buddy of John Walker, Lemar Hoskins served with the Captain during his time in the special forces. Now he serves as "Battlestar", the official partner to the new Captain America.


  • Accidental Murder: His death at Karli's hands was entirely unintentional. The Flag-Smashers hadn't even intended to kill him and had even tried to remove him from the action non-lethally earlier on.
  • Adaptational Late Appearance: In the comics, Lemar Hoskins was introduced (using the codename Bucky) well before Captain America: Winter Soldier, which introduced the retcon that the original Bucky was still alive (albeit Brainwashed and Crazy). The MCU version of Lemar Hoskins, on the other hand, is introduced well after the adaptation of that story, at a point where Bucky's survival is common knowledge, and thus skips right to being Battlestar.
  • Adaptational Wimp: His comic book counterpart got powers from the Power Broker; here he is just a Badass Normal with military training and experience.
  • Adapted Out: In the comics, Lemar Hoskins went by the alias Bucky when he was a sidekick to John Walker/Captain America, but changed it to Battlestar when he found out that slave owners used to call strong male slaves ā€œbucksā€ note . Here, heā€™s called Battlestar from the get-go with no mention of him ever being called Bucky. Justified, as the comic version of Battlestar first appeared before Captain America: Winter Soldier (which introduced the retcon that the original Bucky was still alive), after a number of previous Legacy Characters who adopted Bucky's identity alongside the various Caps. In the MCU, on the other hand, Hoskins first appeared at a point where Bucky's survival was common knowledge, and Bucky's name was treated only as his nickname, and never used as a codename.
  • Atrocious Alias: Bucky seems to think so. Upon hearing Lemar introduce himself as Battlestar, he promptly exits the military jeep to walk the rest of the way back to the airport.
  • Badass Normal: He is a highly-trained soldier wearing elite military gear, no superpowers backing him up. Deconstructed Trope when he gets into a serious one-on-one fight against Karli Morgenthau and gets killed instantly. Unlike most examples of this trope present in the MCU, Hoskins is entirely normal. He doesn't have the fancy S.H.I.E.L.D. gadgets and gear Romanoff or Barton have, nor the advanced vibranium tech of the Wakandans, or even Frank Castle's unbreakable determination and rage. An entirely normal man like Hoskins would never have lasted long in the MCU because he had no special gear or talents other badass normals would need for the trope to play in full effect.
  • Bash Brothers: With his best friend and partner, John Walker.
  • Big Damn Hero: The first time Sam and Bucky face the Flag-Smashers, they are caught off guard by their superpowers. Walker and Hoskins show up just in time to save them. The Flag-Smashers still win, but Sam and Bucky don't die.
  • Butt-Monkey: If Walker gets his ass kicked in a fight, expect Lemar to suffer an even more painful ass-kicking.
  • Childhood Friends: He and John have been friends since high school and served together in the US Army.
  • Composite Character: While generally based on his comic book counterpart, this version of Battlestar also plays the role Walkerā€™s parents played in the comics, serving as Walkerā€™s Morality Chain before his death causes Walkerā€™s Rage Breaking Point.
  • Death by Adaptation: He's still alive and well in the comics.
  • Foil: To Sam Wilson. Both are African-American military men with a close friendship to a Captain America. However, whereas Sam now operates as an independent operative for the Air Force, Lemar has remained in the Army. Sam was chosen by the original Captain America to become his successor while Lemar is chosen by the US government as a wingman and Number Two. Sam outright rejects the notion of becoming a super-soldier while Lemar gladly admits he would become one if given the chance.
  • Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Like his comicbook counterpart, he doesn't wear any protective gear on his head despite running into the exact same dangerous situations as Walker.
  • Military Superhero: After John Walker is chosen to succeed Steve Rogers as the new Captain America, Lemar Hoskins is chosen to be his partner as Battlestar.
  • Morality Chain: Lemar serves as one to Walker, getting him to pull back whenever he's about to turn violent. His death throws Walker into a rage-induced psychotic break.
  • Nice Guy: He's a lot more mellow, open-minded, and approachable than John.
  • Number Two: To John as his partner.
  • Primary-Color Champion: Wears a red and blue tactical armor and is a genuinely heroic person.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The cooler headed blue to John's red who often keeps John in check.
  • Stellar Name: Battlestar.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In the MCU, there are plenty of heroes/fighters who can brush off major injuries like it's no one's business. Except Lemar is an ordinary human, with no special equipment or experience fighting Avengers-level threats, running around with a regular pistol and standard armor for protection. When he and John fight the Dora Milaje, they stand no chance against some of the greatest warriors on Earth. His weakness as a regular human is driven home when Karli accidentally sends Lemar flying into a concrete pillar. He has no adequate protection or superpowers to save him, and he's killed instantly.
  • Taking the Bullet: Not entirely directly, but he dies preventing Morgenthau from shanking Walker through the heart.
  • Too Good for This Sinful Earth: A genuinely supportive and loyal Nice Guy who is accidentally murdered after saving his friend from certain death. Even Sam and Bucky, both of whom don't like him very much, are genuinely saddened and horrified by his death.
  • Token Black Friend: His character pretty much begins and ends at being John's friend, and being killed to further John's story.
  • True Companions: With John, as heā€™s the only one John confides his insecurities with, and remains his biggest supporter thanks to their brotherhood being forged in the fires of combat.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Lemar answer to John's question of whether will he take the Super Soldier Serum is what pushes the latter to take the serum he secretly stole from Karli in order to give him the power necessary to fight the Flag Smashers.

    Others 

United States Air Force

    Meade 

Major General Meade

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Eric L. Haney

Appearances: Iron Man 2

An Air Force Major General and commanding officer of James Rhodes.


  • Adaptational Heroism: A minor example. In the comics, he's part of a plot to destroy Iron Man. In the MCU, he orders James Rhodes to deliver the Iron Man: Mark II armor to Justin Hammer.
  • Demoted to Extra: From a minor antagonist to a single scene.

    Glenn Talbot / Graviton 

Brigadier General Glenn Talbot / Graviton

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"We cut down the tree, we pulled up the roots, but let's just say I'll rest easier when we throw it all on the bonfire."
Click here to see him as Graviton 

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Adrian Pasdar

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Talbot is an officer of the U.S. Air Force assigned to investigate the depth of HYDRA's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. Although he was initially hostile to Phil Coulson's reformed S.H.I.E.L.D., he eventually came to respect them and become their allies in the fight against HYDRA.


  • Adaptational Heroism: Given how his comics counterpart is an enemy of the Hulk and his video game counterpart was just plain psychopathic, this trope was in full force by the middle of the second season, even before he became Graviton, also an example considering Graviton's comics counterpart was an obvious supervillain.
  • Adaptational Nationality: Played with. Franklin Hall remains Canadian, but as he doesn't become Graviton, this trope is in play since Talbot is American.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He has a simple diplomatic strategy when it comes to dealing with the Confederacy — kneel, or be killed. Painfully.
  • The Assimilator: After he is infused with Gravitonium, he gains the ability to assimilate others into himself to gain their knowledge and abilities, which was already one of the Gravitonium's abilities and resulted in a Mind Hive consisting of Franklin Hall and Ian Quinn. He later adds Carl Creel to the mix, and attempts to do so to Daisy Johnson, which he succeeded at in the alternate timeline.
  • Beard of Evil: After becoming Graviton he gets an Important Haircut that trims his Beard of Sorrow into a goatee.
  • Beard of Sorrow: Ends up growing a very thick beard after being held captive and tortured/brainwashed for over six months by General Hale.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: In Season 5, along with Taryan and General Hale. While Hale is the direct threat throughout, Taryan is the Greater-Scope Villain, and Talbot himself only turns evil in the last few episodes, his destruction of the Earth in the Bad Future is the biggest threat that S.H.I.E.L.D. is trying to prevent.
  • Big Bad Slippage: After a prolonged Trauma Conga Line, Talbot's desire to atone for his mistakes leads to him absorbing the Gravitonium, going insane and becoming the Final Boss of Season 5.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Put in critical condition when a Daisy LMD shoots him in the brain with the intention of framing S.H.I.E.L.D. in a similar fashion to how Daisy had been framed for Mace's murder.
  • Butt-Monkey:
    • Every time he meets Team Coulson, it doesn't go over well for him. It's not like we feel sorry when he's knocked out and/or wakes up somewhere else. But when Malick uses his son to blackmail him into helping him...
    • The fact that he's always a Butt-Monkey becomes a motivation for villainy after he's pushed, and he finally decides he wants to start being taken seriously, even if it means forcing the whole world to kneel before him.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Becomes a victim of HYDRA's "compliance" program thanks to General Hale.
  • Call-Back: Essentially becomes a large-scale version of the pilot's Mike Peterson. Since the writers thought Season 5 might be the show's last, it would've been nice Book Ends for the series' Final Boss to hearken back to its Starter Villain.
  • Character Development: Originally quite hostile to Coulson and his team, he grows to respect them and slowly realizes that they are not the bad guys.
  • Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Nobody has actually called him "Graviton", though we did a visual name-drop, through a shot of a crate labelled "gravitonium" with the last three letters covered up by by Remorath blood splatter.
  • Composite Character: He's Major Talbot only in name. Motive-wise he's closer to General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. This is probably why he gets promoted. Later, he infuses himself with Gravitonium infected with the consciousness of Franklin Hall, thus becoming a literal composite character: the MCU version of Graviton.
  • Determinator: He simply won't give up his hunt for Coulson, especially after being humiliated in Canada.
  • The Dog Bites Back: General Hale kidnapped him, kept him as a brainwashed captive for six months, and turned his own family against him. After he becomes Graviton, she makes the mistake of attempting to use the "compliance will be rewarded" catchphrase on him. It does not end well for her.
  • Driven to Suicide: Talbot attempts to kill himself because he can't completely fight off the Faustus brainwashing. Coulson instead talks Talbot into pointing the gun at him, allowing Mack to show up with an Icer and stun Talbot.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Already a Brigadier General within the United States Air Force, Talbot acquires power over gravity in the episode "Option Two". This is not a good thing.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: After everything he's been through, even after he's willing to effectively kill his wife, he still loves his son very much.
  • Evil Versus Evil: Once he becomes Graviton, Talbot quickly starts cleaning house in the Confederacy, killing Crixon and General Hale. Moreover, his ultimate goal is to defend the Earth against Thanos, it's just that the way he plans to go about it will destroy it in the process.
  • Exact Words: At one point, Talbot commandeers a Quinjet even though he doesn't know how to manually fly it, instead using his powers to "fly" the ship. He specifically says he doesn't need it to fly, but to breathe, as they are currently in Earth's orbit, establishing that Batman Can't Breathe In Space. Guess how Talbot meets his demise.
  • The Extremist Was Right: When the Confederacy tells him about Thanos' imminent arrival on Earth, Talbot is horrified and immediately starts planning to extract the Gravitonium from the Earth's crust because he doesn't think the Avengers can hold Thanos off on their own. Of course, the audience already knows he'll be proven right on this count but never get the chance to do anything about it.
  • Fatal Flaw: A With Us or Against Us mentality. Talbot at his core does have good intentions but he falls into a black and white dichotomy when it comes to cooperation; if people are on his side then he expects them to be completely subservient to his methods and goals with no room for any resistance, even if it's to achieve better results than what he has planned could. Otherwise you're an enemy to be mistrusted and treated however he sees fit. Talbot cannot fathom scenarios where people can align with him but not fall into Blind Obedience to his orders and much of his friction with S.H.I.E.L.D. comes from the fact that he doesn't truly understand that they have to work a bit outside of traditional borders by their nature as an espionage agency, even when they are working with him. His Faceā€“Heel Turn ultimately comes about because a supposed ally betrayed him and he refused to listen to Coulson about anything by this point because of the sheer number of times they've come into conflict.
  • Final Boss: He becomes the final villain of Season 5 after completely infusing himself with Gravitonium and gaining gravity manipulation powers, becoming a Well-Intentioned Extremist who is willing to do anything, including breaking the Earth apart, to obtain more Gravitonium, just so he can be a hero and protect the Earth, and anyone who disagrees with him is an enemy in his eyes. note 
  • Friend on the Force: Though "friend" is stretching it, Coulson presses him into this role as S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer has the resources to contain gifted prisoners like Carl Creel. He becomes this more willingly as season 2 progresses.
  • General Ripper:
    • When he mentions "peacekeeping" troops, Coulson remarks that since Talbot's in charge, they'll be anything but.
    • Coulson speculates that the worst case scenarios for his team and the surviving agents at the Hub are that he'll either lock them all up without trial or have them executed.
    • When he finally catches up to them, he comes after them (a small group of four or five agents) with an army, guns blazing and all, and threatens to make their lives a living hell unless they cooperate, and even if they do, they don't get to walk off.
    • He literally becomes this in Season Two when he's promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General, though he soon knows his enemy well enough to recognize that the UN attack may not have been S.H.I.E.L.D.'s doing.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: Once Talbot becomes Graviton, he seeks out more Gravitonium to infuse into himself so that he can stop Thanos and any other galactic level threat to the Earth. Unfortunately his actions (almost) result in the Earth being shattered and the remainder of humanity being enslaved by the Kree.
  • Gravity Master: Due to infusing himself with Gravitonium, Talbot acquires the ability to control gravity.
  • Hearing Voices: Absorbing the Gravitonium caused him to absorb Hall and Quinn's consciousness with it. However, unlike Creel and Ruby who both absorbed the Gravitonium and then quickly went insane from hearing Hall and Quinn's non-stop arguing, Talbot seems to have some measure of control over Hall and Quinn.
    Talbot: Buncha dead losers raisin' a ruckus. Turns out all they needed was a General to get 'em in line.
  • Heelā€“Face Revolving Door: Talbot's status as an enemy or ally of Coulson and his team bounces back and forth between seasons like a game of ping-pong. By episode 20 of Season 5, he seems to have finally settled on "villain" — specifically, Graviton.
  • Hero Antagonist: A fair number of people In-Universe would agree that going after rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agents is a heroic act, considering how many of them are actually bad guys. However, he seems keen to focus on agents for whom he has a personal dislike, or even those he knows are innocent but believes can be threatened for information, meaning that this trope has a limit on it. Stops being a hero near the end of Season 5.
  • I Have Your Wife: The only reason why he's Malick's inside man at the symposium in the first place is Malick grabbing his son. This becomes an important point two seasons later.
  • Inspector Javert: He admits in "Nothing Personal" that he never liked S.H.I.E.L.D. to begin with, hence why he's so keen to prosecute them, even if it means going across borders (Canada, specifically). He gradually begins to warm up to them as the series goes on, but still ends up misunderstanding the situation half the time.
  • It's Personal: He never liked S.H.I.E.L.D, and there appears to be some history between him and Coulson.
  • Jerkass Has a Point:
    • Nobody has an idea just how far HYDRA has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., and letting them continue onward as if nothing happened should be out of the question for governments who nearly became victims of S.H.I.E.L.D. without some severe investigation and interrogation of those who remain, with their suspicions justified in Ward being a HYDRA agent who is allowed to roam free because nobody is questioning his loyalty.
    • Later, in "Wake Up", he flat-out says that the current incarnation of S.H.I.E.L.D. wouldn't exist if not for him, and considering he produced a trustworthy powered individual when none was available (the only other option in that regard, Daisy, had gone rogue in her grief over losing Lincoln), he's more or less right.
    • In "The Return", though he's initially hostile in his next encounter with Team Coulson, it's because he'd rather not risk the encounter being with phonies instead of the real deal; he'd already been fooled twice, so shame on him for how the Bakshi breakout was handled, and he's not about to let himself risk being fooled a third time. He does calm down a bit so that Coulson can explain just what the hell happened.
    • When he becomes Graviton, his methods are extreme, but it's hard to argue with his opinion that Earth's defenses from Thanos are inadequate and the Avengers need all the help they can get, especially since we know it won't be enough. Furthermore, when Coulson protests, Talbot throws back in his face all the times that S.H.I.E.L.D., his ostensible colleagues, have gone behind his back, defied his orders, ignored the rules, lied to him, or even directly fought with him - not to mention getting him shot in the head and isolated from his own family, several times. While S.H.I.E.L.D. always had his best interests in mind, it's pretty easy to sympathize with Talbot's resentment of how they treat him, especially since he's supposed to be Coulson's superior.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: From the small conference call Team Coulson had with him, Talbot patronized Coulson, questioned his capabilities as a leader, and is ordering his men to practically invade the Hub. Coulson's annoyed expression when the call starts says it all. However, over time Talbot learnt to trust Coulson and his team. He also has a son and a wife that he cares about very much, proving he's not entirely heartless. This loses traction the moment he infuses himself with the Gravitonium and becomes Graviton.
  • Kneel Before Zod: Starts demanding this of people after he becomes Graviton, and pressures them with his powers to ensure their compliance.
  • Knight Templar: After Talbot absorbs the Gravitonium, he quickly starts using it to casually murder people (albeit largely Asshole Victims like Hale), threatens to kill Coulson, and becomes fixated on gaining even more power... because he thinks he's protecting the Earth against cosmic enemies like Thanos. This ultimately leads to him wreaking havoc on a large city and trying to break the Earth apart, and all the while he thinks himself heroic for doing so.
  • Leitmotif: He gains one after his transformation into Graviton, which oddly enough bears some resemblance to the theme from Days of Our Lives.
  • Lovecraftian Superpower: Talbot, with the Gravitonium, displays an ability to absorb people into himself via Gravitonium "tentacles" generated from his own body, possibly (if Hall and Quinn are any indication) trapping the person's consciousness within himself. Furthermore, one Confederacy member asserted that no mortal being can contain the powers of Gravitonium, and the process by which Talbot acquired the power takes a clear toll on his sanity.
  • Manchurian Agent: After being incapacitated, he's taken by Hale, who has him subjected to the Faustus mind control process, becoming a sleeper agent for HYDRA.
  • Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Downplayed. His Graviton costume is actually very similar to Graviton's comics costume, which is justified because Talbot is deliberately trying to play the role of a superhero and impress the Confederacy. Only some of the brighter colors are turned down.
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat: When the team first meets Talbot, Coulson says the best case scenario resulting from Talbot's investigation will be the team being tied up in court hearings for the next six months.
  • Papa Wolf: He doesn't like it when Coulson mentions his son, thinking that Coulson was threatening him.
  • Painful Transformation: To wit: Ruby nearly lost her mind from the agony after being injected with only 8% of the Gravitonium. Talbot injected himself with everything that was left.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: In a huge season-ending twist, it's revealed that neither Daisy nor Ruby were ever the prophesied "Destroyer of Worlds." It was Talbot all along. And boy does he ever live up to that title. The moment he gets his powers, he literally turns into a walking, talking weapon of mass destruction that's nigh unstoppable. Even the Confederacy had no choice but to kneel before him, and in their final showdown, for the most part, Daisy was no match. Only for a brief moment when she injects herself with the Centipede serum does she finally get enough of an upper hand to finish him off. And if she hadn't, the Bad Future would've happened as it should've: Talbot literally cracking the planet apart like an egg.
  • Pet the Dog: He expresses regret when May tells him that six S.H.I.E.L.D. agents died in "A Fractured House", saying he knows how it feels to lose good men. Then they shake hands.
  • Rank Up: By Season Two, he's been promoted from a Colonel to a Brigadier General.
  • Reflexive Response:
    • He reacted immediately to May's call of "Watch your six!", despite the fact that he didn't see her, didn't know who she was, and didn't truly believe that he was in danger. His proper response gave him just enough time to evade Carl Creel's attack.
    • On the flip side, in "The Return" he's so thoroughly fooled by the LMD infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. that the next time he and Coulson meet, he immediately assumes he's talking to an LMD.
  • Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In the comics, Talbot is an enemy of the Hulk, and Graviton is an enemy of the Avengers.
  • Smug Super: Talbot is utterly confident in the invulnerability provided by his powers, which leaves him open to a decisive blow from Daisy.
  • Superpower Lottery: A winner for the ages. The moment he absorbs the gravitonium, not only does he gain the power to focus and manipulate gravity just by thinking, he also receives a form of extreme telekinesis by manipulating the gravity of individual objects. Immunity to bullets, Daisy's quakes, Yo-Yo's speed - he literally receives the works. While there's no doubt that the process made him lose his grip on sanity completely, his claim of being powerful enough to take on Thanos and his army likely wasn't completely delusional.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He is pretty much a stand-in for General "Thunderbolt" Ross for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., being an obstructive Inspector Javert for the heroes. Subverted, however, because Talbot is much nicer underneath his tough exterior than Ross is. At the end of the day, all Ross wanted was the Hulk's power for himself, while Talbot actually has good intentions. He's just not quite imaginative enough to deal with the crazy things S.H.I.E.L.D. has to deal with on a daily basis, which is why he ends up as a Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist half the time that simply happens to be a bit Wrong Genre Savvy. Jerkass he may be, he does have a Hidden Heart of Gold. Although Talbot eventually goes insane, at that point he's a completely different type of villain than Ross and has become a Composite Character with Graviton.
  • Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: In Season 2, he starts to grow shades of this; for example, in "A Fractured House", he has doubts about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s involvement in the attack on the UN and even tells Senator Ward that he doesn't think S.H.I.E.L.D. was responsible. By "Aftershocks", he seems to be much closer to this role.
  • Thrown Out the Airlock: Daisy defeats Talbot by quaking him with such force that he reaches escape velocity and breaks free of Earth's gravitational pull.
  • Tragic Villain: Talbot is an immensely complex figure, who only becomes the outright villain Graviton as an act of desperation to save Coulson and his team. Even after he becomes Graviton, his goals are still noble, and his arguments about being constantly left in the dark by Coulson's subterfuge are not without merit.
  • Transhuman Treachery: Asserts that he is no longer a man after acquiring his gravity powers and starts killing civilians.
  • Unwitting Pawn: As Graviton, he ends up becoming this to the Confederacy — more specifically, to the House of Kasius, who manipulated him into breaking the Earth apart in the original timeline. This led to their conquest of what remained.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: His relationship with Coulson has developed into this, more or less, by Season 3; they disagree a lot, but also have come to rely on and trust each other. In Season 4, "Wake Up", they lament how their clashing views make them argue, and he is upset (rather than angry) that Coulson accused him of being a leak.
  • Walking Spoiler: Him becoming Graviton, in spite of being a very late twist in Season 5, makes him one.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Takes on this role after becoming Graviton, fully believing every action he takes, no matter how immoral or ill-conceived, goes towards saving the Earth from Thanos.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Absorbing all the Gravitonium caused him to develop a massive god complex, which Hall and Quinn's voices in his head (and General Hale's extensive torture, and lingering damage from the headshot he took in "World's End") probably didn't help.
  • Worthy Opponent: He and Coulson see each other as this. For his side, Coulson impressed him by successfully hiding from him for a winter season, and later admits that he has "big brass ones". He's functionally allied with S.H.I.E.L.D. by mid-Season two.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy:
    • He has a pretty bad day when Agent 33 infiltrates his base. His attempt to Bluff the Imposter goes nowhere as he fails to consider that she might be disguised as a male soldier, and then he puts himself in the marital doghouse when he mistakes his wife for her. He becomes this again near the end of Season 4, when S.H.I.E.L.D.'s entire base is destroyed, the team mysteriously goes missing, and he has no idea what's going on. Because all the evidence he has is a handful of busted LMD remains, he assumes that Coulson and his team have been replaced by robots (and while that did happen, Talbot only catches on after the LMD arc had ended). Talbot seems to be warming up to Coulson again when an LMD of Daisy puts him in critical condition, framing her for attempted murder just like the bad guys intended.
    • After he infuses himself with Gravitonium, he seems to believe that he is experiencing his superhero origin story, based on how he speaks about the transformation to his son. It's actually his supervillain origin story, as the Gravitonium has driven him completely insane.
  • You Rebel Scum!: His initial attitude towards Coulson's team can be summed up as this. He takes offense when they use the term "agent" to describe one of their own, because that makes it sound like they're still part of a legitimate agency. This has vanished entirely by Season 4 and been replaced with a good deal of respect.
  • You Said You Would Let Them Go: His reaction to Malick reneging on their deal for his own self-serving reasons is surprise that he is going to be shot by Malick's men.

    Evans 

Lieutenant Evans

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Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Zibby Allen

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Talbot's aide, who later is tasked with tracking down the missing members of S.H.I.E.L.D. on behalf of General Hale.


  • Inspector Antagonist: She arrests Fitz in order to find Team Coulson and when convinced he doesn't know where they are, she grants him his requests of books and a TV to ensure his cooperation.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Unbeknowst to Evans, Hale is a member of HYDRA and thus she's unwittingly serving HYDRA'S interests.
  • You Have Failed Me: She gets a Boom, Headshot! from Hale after Fitz and Hunter steal the Zephyr One and a Cryo-Freeze Chamber.

    Lucas 

Lieutenant Lucas

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Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Joe Layton

Appearances: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Evans' partner, tasked with tracking down the missing members of S.H.I.E.L.D. on behalf of General Hale.


  • Inspector Antagonist: He arrests Fitz in order to find Team Coulson but he's merely doing his duty and ignores S.H.I.E.L.D. was framed by the Watchdogs.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Unbeknowst to Lucas, Hale is a member of HYDRA and thus he's unwittingly serving HYDRA'S interests.
  • You Have Failed Me: He gets a Boom, Headshot! from Hale after Fitz and Hunter steal the Zephyr One and a Cryo-Freeze Chamber.

    Bret Johnson 

Bret Johnson

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Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Pete Ploszek

Appearances: Captain Marvel

An air force pilot serving alongside Monica Rambeau and Carol Danvers.


  • Jerkass: He's a chauvinist to Carol.
  • Stay in the Kitchen: He believes women have no place in the air force.
    Johnson (to Carol Danvers): "You're a decent pilot, but you're too emotional. You do know why they call it a "cockpit", don't you?"

    Aly Goodner 

Major Aly Goodner

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Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Rachael Thompson

Appearances: WandaVision

An Air Force Major with close ties to the Rambeau family.


    Others 

United States Navy

    Curtis Hoyle 

Curtis Hoyle

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"We take matters into our own hands. We are not the only soldiers to feel let down by the country we serve. I have friends who have been betrayed in ways that you guys can't even imagine."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Jason R. Moore

Appearances: The Punisher

"Do me a favor, Frank: don't be a wallowing asshole. Before I have to take this fake leg off and beat you to death with it. Just imagine your tombstone: 'Frank Castle lost an asskicking contest to a one-legged man.' I'll do it."

A former Navy SARC and friend of Frank Castle. These days, he's an insurance salesman by day, and by night runs a support group for veterans with PTSD.


  • Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, Curtis becomes the second in command of the Rockhouse Operation drug cartel. This version stays on the straight and narrow throughout the show
  • An Arm and a Leg: Curtis lost the lower part of his left leg to a suicide bomber, and now gets by on a prosthetic.
  • Combat Medic: Curtis was a hospital corpsman, and Micro summons him to treat Frank's injuries after he's wounded in his encounter with Gunner.
    • Taken super literally in Season 2 when he saves the life of a wounded enemy that he wounded.
  • Cruel to Be Kind: Curtis tells Russo to not hire Lewis at Anvil, because Lewis doesn't understand that the Anvil gig is the worst thing that could happen to him. Except it isn't. Lewis ends up taking a far worse path.
  • Decomposite Character: His fate as a drug dealer is given over to Billy Russo.
  • Disabled Snarker: Having a prosthetic for his lower left leg doesn't take away his ability to snark.
  • Handicapped Badass: He puts up a good fight against Lewis and nearly overcomes him, even if he's ultimately beaten up with his own fake leg.
  • The Lancer: Takes this position to Frank's The Hero in Season 2, both in protecting Amy from John Pilgrim and in the plan to fight Russo and his crew.
  • Nice Guy: Very much. He's nonjudgmental and only wants the best for Frank and Lewis.
  • Race Lift: Curtis was white in the comics. He is portrayed by a black actor in the show.
  • Secret-Keeper: Frank has maintained contact with Curtis since his presumed "death" on the Blacksmith's boat.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: Curtis tries to help other vets get out of it. He briefly lapses back to it when Lewis beats him as losing to a kid reminds him of how helpless he was when he lost his leg.
  • We Used to Be Friends: By the end of Season 2, he is very clearly done with Frank and the violence and chaos that surrounds him, and has given up on ever getting him to change. Letting David Schultz walk is his way of washing his hands of Frank - the saga is over, everyone involved with Frank has suffered far too much, and he knows that this is how it's always going to be with him and doesn't want to do it any more.

    Others 

United States Marine Corps

    Gunner Henderson 

Gunner Henderson

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Jeb Kreager

Appearances: The Punisher

A Marine who was part of Frank Castle's team in Operation Cerberus.


  • As the Good Book Says...: He frequently quotes The Bible. The first time he meets Frank, he intentionally exploits this trope in the extreme to troll him into thinking he's a nutjob, before making clear he's just screwing with him.
  • Crazy Survivalist: He's living completely off the grid by the time Frank and Micro come looking for him, living in his family's cabin in the Kentucky mountains. He's got no electricity, no credit cards, no car, not even running water.
  • Deep South: Gunner's got a Kentucky drawl.
  • Due to the Dead: Respecting the dead and giving them their due is repeatedly shown to be very important to him:
    • A young marine loaned Gunner his knife after Gunner lost his own. After the young man was killed, he went to return the knife and pay his respects to the dead marine. What he found was Colonel Bennett and Agent Orange stuffing bags of heroin into KIAs. So Gunner made a tape of Orange executing Ahmad Zubair, and sent it to Micro. The rest is history...
    • Even earlier he is upset that Frank desecrates Zubair's body by removing the bullet that killed him with pincers, pointing out that this kind of stuff is not what clear conscience military does.
    • As he lays dying, the only thing he can say to Frank is to desperately ask him to bury him. While Frank is unable to do so himself due to his own injuries, Micro calls the local police to his location to ensure his body is found and given due rites.
  • The Gadfly: A burly and friendly guy who tries to come off like a religious fanatic just to take the piss out of Frank.
  • Religious Bruiser: Subverted, he tries to look like a fanatic version of one when he introduced himself to Frank only to admit he was just trolling him.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Only appears in two episodes, yet Gunner's decision to record the Zubair assassination kicked off the events of Daredevil season 2.
  • Token Good Teammate: The one named member of Operation Cerberus outside of Frank who isn't in on the conspiracy. He even expresses doubts about their actions earlier than Frank does, and is the one to leak video of Rawlins's torture.

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