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Some of these entries are for orphaned characters who no longer have a player, are for characters who now have new players, or contain players who are no longer active. The old entries are included for the sake of completeness.

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     Played by Aquarius 

Revolution (Gabby Anderson)

Gabby Anderson was on her way to a wedding when she was injured during a superhero battle, losing her family and the use of her legs. After a long recovery, she developed a super suit. However, she chose not to use it to fight supervillains but to help those the other heroes didn't give a second thought to.

     Played by Bio 858 

Kid Arachnid (Miles Morales)

The Spider-Man of another universe, Morales was transported to Earth MHR-616 and now fights alongside a slightly different version of the Spider-Family.
  • Kid Hero: He's only 14.
  • Motor Mouth: In the grand Spider-Man tradition.
  • Spider-Family Crossover: In 'Swarm of the Vultures', Spider-Gwen, Mania, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Man (Parker), and Kid Arachnid teamed up against two versions of the Vulture.
  • The Trope Kid: Kid Arachnid

     Played by Cali Chardonnay 
No longer active.

Deadpool (Wade Wilson)

The infamous Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool is an utterly insane fast-talking hired gun who can survive nearly anything the world can throw at him due to his healing factor and lots and lots of weapons. He currently serves as Pestilence in the Horsemen.

Elsa Bloodstone

Like her father, she is a monster hunter, at this point one of the universe's premiere hunters. Also like him, she has the superpowers albeit through the Bloodstone found in a piece of clothing instead of inside her body.

     Played by Crow 
No longer active.

Nuke (Frank Simpson)

A soldier in Viet Nam who was tortured during the war and then thrown into the Weapon VII program, he was given enhanced abilities and an addiction to adrenaline. He was sent out into the world and became terrorist who targeted the Un-American (essentially everyone else).
  • Cyborg: He has bones made of metal and skin that's Ultradurable plastic.
  • Super-Soldier: Good Ol' Weapon Plus made him Weapon VII as part of Project Homegrown
  • Brainwashedand Crazy: Nuke had schizophrenia long before Weapon Plus brainwashed him into being their killing machine
  • The Vietnam Vet: 90% of Nuke's military service record is from 1961 to 1978, and he is one of the more violent Vietnam Veterans.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: Nuke was tortured in a Vietcong POW Camp and to present day still hallucinates his enemies are Vietcong and NVA.
  • Sociopathic Soldier: Specifically the Broken Soldier subtype.
  • One-Man Army: Nuke was a Black Ops soldier during Vietnam, and was usually deployed alone.
  • Tattoo as Character Type: Face Tattoos tend to mean ruthlessness.
  • Berserk Button: Say "No VC" and he will literally burn your world to ashes, salt the earth, and kill the entire city before he calms down.
  • Patriotic Fervor: The bad version, big time.

     Played by Gordy 

Mister Malicious (Jack Lastman)

Former hero and current henchmen, Malicious is a mutant who lives to cause trouble. He has the power to absorb inanimate material and apply it to his body.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a total clown, but he's very good at performing heists.
  • Extreme Omnisexual: Has propositioned males, females, and Symbiotes.
  • Fallen Hero: Used to be a superhero before turning coat.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He speaks very casually and jokes around, but this is done strictly to mock and demean everyone around him.
  • Freudian Excuse: He feels that he failed as a hero because he was destined to be a villain like his father, and that You Can't Fight Fate.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: During his stay at the Xavier Mansion, his rude behavior made him heavily disliked by just about everyone. Nonetheless, people tried to rehabilitate him.
  • Fusion Dance: His powers are based on fusing with objects.
  • Obviously Evil: During his stint at the Xavier mansion, literally everyone who interacted with him could tell that he was up to no good. He was mostly tolerated because he was surrounded by powerful mutants that could kill him the second he turned on them.

Psi-Lord (Franklin Richards)

The son of the Fantastic Four's Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman.

Marvelous (Hunter Jackson)

''Previously an aerokinetic mutant, experimentation under Mister Sinister lead to his powers changing to Summon Magic. Originally a hero, he's since been coerced into assisting the villainous Mister Sinister, and the Anti-Hero Kristoff von Doom.
  • Bizarre Taste in Food: Coats everything in sugar or chocolate, including pizza.
  • Conspiracy Theoriest: Regularly latches on to increasingly bizarre andoutlandish conspiracy theories.
  • The Eeyore: Nearly everything he says is a complaint or him predicting doom.
  • Familiar: Usually accompanied by a stoat he created, named Step.
  • Half-Hearted Henchman: He'll often (covertly) show his disdain to the people he works under.
  • Superhuman Trafficking: A victim of it in his backstory. It ends up becoming a Running Gag when he's forced to work for Mister Sinister, sold to the Collector, and forced to work for Kristoff von Doom within the span of a week.

     Played by Hades 
No longer active.

Acacius Macfarlane

A psychiatrist employed by SHIELD for their personnel and to provide clinical insight into the minds of the supercriminals that SHIELD deals with on a day-to-day basis. He also just so happens to be a mutant, a psychic.

     Played by Jaymi 

Stepford Cuckoos (Mindee, Celeste, and Phoebe Cuckoos)

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  • Not Allowed to Grow Up: Due to the nature of the site, they're the same age they were around the Civil War about a decade ago.

     Played by Martyr 

Argent Arcanist (Leyla Demir)

A mage that specializes in dream magic, Argent Arcanist gained her powers from being locked into her own dreams while in a coma. When she awoke, she began working to protect the world she discovered with the world she knew.
  • Color-Coded Wizardry: The Argent in Argent Arcanist means silver. Here, it’s true silver and not white as in heraldry. It appears on her costume and her magic itself is silver and white.
  • Cool House: The Castle Under Fog.
  • Cosmic Motifs: Moons and stars.
  • Dream Weaver: Part of her power set, although she needs to visit multiple times to change it too much.
  • Hope Bringer: One of her powers is to channel the hopes and dreams of others into an aura.
  • Legacy Character: The first Argent Arcanist operated in the sixth century.
  • Living Lie Detector: When in dreams she can do this when she's wearing the Shroud of Stars.
  • Lunacy: Inverted. Some of her powers that require long term actions reset at the new moon.
  • Mystical White Hair: Silver in her case.
  • Original Character: She's one.
  • Painting the Medium: Naturally, her speech is colored silver.
  • Pimped-Out Cape: The Shroud of Stars. Technically it's a misnomer as what looks like stars on the inner lining is actually a map of dreamscapes.
  • Silver Has Mystic Powers / Silver Bullet: Her energy blasts have a stopping power comparable to a bow and arrow but they behave as silver to beings vulnerable to it.
  • The Sleepless: Technically the Argent Arcanist does not require sleep. She often does sleep to enter the dream world as part of her job though.
  • Superhero Sobriquets: The Sentinel of Slumber, the Defender of Dreams, and the Circadian Champion, among others.
  • The Shrink: Her civilian job.
  • Why Did It Have to be Rats: The Argent Arcanist fears rats/mice.

Beast (Henry McCoy)

One of the founding X-men and a long-time Avenger, the Beast is one of the great scientific minds of the Marvel universe. He had always been beast-like with overly large hands and feet, but, at one point he tried (and failed) to make himself look normal. This gave him blue fur and an even more bestial appearance.

Alternate and Future Versions of him display the following tropes:

  • Call-Back: Earth-2061 Beast is part of the Brotherhood and plays a card game similar to the one played by the Brotherhood in X-men #4 with himself in place of the Toad.
  • Forced Transformation: Earth-822 Beast gains his characteristic fur and coloration after a trip to Kamar-Taj.
  • For Want Of A Nail: In one AU, the Blob fights the Beast-as-Famine who steals intelligence.
  • Interface Screw: Earth-[ ] Beast fights the Oblivion which consumes knowledge, ideas and so forth. A large part of the battle is eaten by the Oblivion.

The Blob (Fred Dukes)

The Blob could have been one of the original X-men. Instead he used his powers for evil, usually as the muscle. He recently tried to reform, casting himself as a hero for the common man. He is very rotund and is nearly impossible to move. He currently serves as Famine in the Horsemen.
  • Acrofatic: He's surprising agile for a guy his size.
  • Barrier Warrior: Nothing moves the Blob!
  • Big Eater / Villainous Glutton: Depending on what side of the fence he's on. The latter is especially true as Famine.
  • The Big Guy: On both the Champions and the Horsemen.
  • Body Horror: As Famine sucks the life force from others, he gains new body mass in the form of massive fat deposits that he can then redistribute around his body as needed.
  • Heel–Face Revolving Door: He started out trying to reform, even being a founding member of an incarnation of the Champions. Then he got conned by Apocalypse into becoming the new Famine.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: His Famine incarnation.
  • Jabba Table Manners: As Famine. Made worse by the fact that he's usually eating people.
  • Large Ham: Both pre and post-Famine.
  • Metaphorgotten: Happened when he tried to give a pep talk to the Champions.

Alternate and Future Versions of him display the following tropes:

Crystal (Crystalia Amaquelin)

Crystal is a princess from a group called the Inhumans. Each had a unique power and hers was controlling the four elements. She has long-standing ties to the Inhumans themselves, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers (by herself), and the X-men (through her ex-husband). Currently she is depowered although even she doesn't know what caused it.

Martyr (Penny Guthrie)

One of the youngest in a long line of mutants in her family, Martyr is a healer. Kind of. She can heal injuries of those around her but she takes them on herself. So, their broken bones become hers.

Alternate and Future Versions of her display the following tropes:

  • Extreme Doormat: The Martyr from Earth-1106 fits the bill.
  • Suicidal Pacifism: The version of Martyr from a possible bad future is this, taking Xavier's philosophy of non-violence to an extreme.
  • Child Soldier: How bad future Martyr views her time training as an X-man.
  • Interspecies Adoption:In one possible future she daydreams about, Martyr is married with an adopted Skrull son.
  • Vampire Hunter: She is this in one possible future that she daydreams about. She fights a vampire Dust (Sooraya Qadir).

J. Jonah Jameson, Jr.

The bluster and anger-filled publisher of the Daily Bugle, Jameson is the boss of Spider-Man (Peter Parker) among others. His paper is a tabloid that specializes in smearing superheroes, in particular that Wall-Crawling Menace, Spider-Man.

Alternate and Future Versions of his display the following tropes:

  • You Are What You Hate: On Earth-101010 he is that world's Spider◊Man. Notably, he doesn't wear a mask.

Penance (Arta)

Penance is a mutant from what was once Yugoslavia. She has spent a lot of her life as a prisoner both in an interdimensional hellscape and in a sort of time share with the consciousnesses of others. Now mostly free of her past, she is trying to make sense of the horrors of her world. No longer played by Martyr.
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: Her fingers, toes, and hair are all this.
  • Combat Pragmatist: She leapt onto the back of M, the woman who once inhabited her body, with all ten razor-sharp fingers and toes digging in.
  • Disability Immunity: When someone tries to use sound against her. She couldn't hear Dracula's Compelling Voice, for example.
  • Girl's Night Out Episode: Attempted along with Jubilee, Husk, and Domino. It did not end well after Deadpool crashed the party.
  • The Speechless: She does not speak. She has communicated by nonverbal means on occasion.
  • Too Many Belts: Her entire outfit is endless belts. In universe there's a reason. Out of universe, she was created in the 90s.

Red Skull (Johann Shmidt)

The Nazi equivalent to Captain America, he has been a thorn in America's side for years.
  • Evil Counterpart: Not only is he this to Captain America, but one of his schemes involved bringing over a Captain America (actually the son of the original) from an Earth where the Axis powers won World War II.
  • 0% Approval Rating: Even his fellow villains hate him.

Rogue (Anne Marie)

A prominent member of the X-men, her only native power is the ability to absorb aspects of other people (superpowers, memories, personality, skills) with a touch. She maintains the powers gained from Carol Danvers on site.

Ruby Thursday (Thursday Rubinstein)

A mad scientist who replaced her own head with a gumball-shaped computer, she gravitated to a group of eccentric rogues called the Headmen. Each had a shtick somehow related to their craniums. She ran for President in the 70s, believes her head is the height of beauty, and collects lovers as a hobby.
  • Bald of Evil: Technically, in her spherical-headed form.
  • Butter Face: Body like a supermodel; head like a red gumball.
  • Mad Scientist: She believes everyone on earth deserves a ruby red gumball head like hers.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Moreso than the comics version.
  • For Science!: A lot of her behavior. Among other things it was the only reason she helped Finesse try to cure a child of Dark Beast's genetic manipulation.
  • "Freaky Friday" Flip: Happened in 'Of Two Heads' with her and the Beast.
  • Pet the Dog: Her moments with her daughter. Additionally, in "Molliver Twist", she went out of her way to help Molly and her friends escape a villain, albeit for her own selfish reasons.
  • Steven Ulysses Perhero: Thursday Rubinstein became Ruby Thursday.
  • Gender Bender: Considering goes this route in order to wear a red uniform (worn by the men at the Raft) in "Time Served".
  • Prison Riot: Started in 'Time Served' to cover her escape and to provide backup for the inevitable response.
  • Swiss-Army Weapon: Her head.
  • Morally Ambiguous Doctorates
  • Omnidisciplinary Scientist: She claims many fields among them robotics, bio-organics, chemistry, and political science.
  • Cut Ruby Thursday a Check: Pointed out by multiple characters. She still doesn't care.
  • Fem Bot: Her current body is entirely artificial.
  • Fur and Loathing: On occasion.
  • Losing Your Head: Frequently removes it.
  • Body Horror: She removed her own head and replaced it with a computer inside a sphere.
  • Disco Dan: Somewhat. The decor in her lab is very 1970s.
  • Sarcastic Clapping: Does this to Finesse, while Ruby is running on a treadmill no less.
  • President Evil: Tried to be this when she ran against President Ford and Governor Carter but was exposed as a supervillain before the election.
  • High Collar of Doom: A frequent fashion choice of hers.
  • Does Not Like Magic: Not a fan of mages or claims of magic.
  • What Happened to the Mouse? 'The Hitchhiker' tries to explain whatever happened to her robot buddy the Dibbuk.
  • Older Than She Looks A less extreme example, but she looks to be in her late-20s/early-30s when she appears human but in site canon still ran for President of the United States in 1976 which means that she's a member of the Silent Generation.
  • Not Staying for Breakfast: Done to Deadpool among others. Part of her deep intimacy and commitment issues.
  • Really Gets Around: She's looking for anyone she finds interesting and her interest is incredibly fleeting.
  • Alternate Self: She gathered a room full of them in 'The Gathering Place' for a nefarious plot. The other Rubys included:
    • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Ruby Thursday from one alternate earth can get like this. She tends to have kaiju-like fights with Ant-Man and Goliath.
    • Rule 63: The Ruby Thursday of Earth-3490 is a man codenamed "Monday Monday". He looks like a Chippendale's dancer.
    • Lady of Black Magic: Two in fact. One is Sorceress Supreme of her world and the other is a witch from a world of monsters.
    • Klingon Promotion: The Ruby of Earth-83840 became Sorceress Supreme by killing Baron Mordo.
    • Pumpkin Person: Wednesday's Child from Earth-666 has a pumpkin for a head.

Spoilsport (Elizabeth Bell Pryce)

Formerly of Madripoor's High Town, Pryce is now a mercenary for hire/courier in New York City.
  • Always Someone Better: She effective has antigravity skates with a lot of restrictions. She faced off against a true teleporter in the form of Blink. It wasn't even a contest.
  • Named by the Adaptation: She has no canon name. On site, her name is Elizabeth Bell Pryce.
  • Preppy Name: See above.
  • Not Quite Flight: In effect she can use any solid surface at any angle as a 'road'.
  • No Communities Were Harmed: She's from Madripoor.
  • Worthless Treasure Twist: Spoilsport fights X-23 to get to a treasure hidden by Wolverine which Tyger Tiger is after. Spoilsport disregards the box of items of purely sentimental value.

Squirrel Girl (Doreen Green)

A mutant who started her career as sidekick to an unwilling Iron Man, she eventually made her way to New York and joined the Great Lake Avengers before going on her own and winding up working for SHIELD. She has squirrel powers and can talk to squirrels. No longer played by Martyr.

The Trapster (Peter Petruski)

A disgraced chemist, he went into villainy as Paste-Pot Pete. The ridiculous name and his generally ineffective nature lead him to be a laughingstock. He's tried to live down that initial debut many times now but so far hasn't been able to. He faces the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man in about equal measure. No longer played by Martyr.
  • Butt-Monkey: And how!
  • Dirty Coward: After kidnapping the superheroine Finesse, he brought her to a dock to hold her ransom. When Omega Red showed up, he high tailed it and ran, leaving her (still bound) to be saved by Wolverine while she berated him.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He tries so hard.
  • Large Ham: He thinks it makes him sound more impressive.
  • Never Live It Down/Once Done, Never Forgotten: Several. In addition to his comics canon defeats, his site canon calamities include a one-punch KO by Molly Hayes and the time when he tried to attack the Baxter Building but was instead on the receiving end of a clothesline from the Thing who was actually just trying to hail a cab outside HQ.
  • Trap Master: About the only thing he's good at.

Vision Girl (Viv Vision)

In an effort to be more human, the Vision built himself a robot family. Viv is his daughter. She lived a relatively normal life until her uncle, the Grim Reaper (Eric Williams) nearly killed her. On Earth-MHR-616 this experience motivated her to improve her natural abilities as a coping mechanism, so she became a heroine.
  • Alliterative Family: Vision, Virginia, Vin, and Viv. Averted with Sparky the dog though.
  • By-the-Book Cop: "In such a spirit, Father, do you wish to inform Samuel Sterns of his rights under the United States Supreme Court decision of Miranda v. Arizona, with the additional questions often used in the state of New York in order to comply with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations?"
  • Canon Immigrant: She's a character created post-Civil War, as is the rest of her family save Vision himself. Spared by the Adaptation And they are all alive in MHR-616 as they were brought over before Vision Vol. 2 #9.
  • Liar Revealed: Happens to her in "The Leader's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day". She tells her dad that she's at a study group and then they both show up to stop the titular villain.
  • Like Father Like Daughter: Is a synthezoid currently dating a magically-inclined mutant (in her case, Pixie).
  • Robot Girl: But of course.
  • Super Family Team: She and her father (so far).

Alternate Versions of her display the following tropes:

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)

A former New Mutant, among other teams, Rahne is a Scottish mutant whos powers resemble werewolfism. She spent her early years in a state of self-loathing but has gotten into a better place as an adult.
  • Beach Episode: Occurs in one of her solos.
  • Fur Against Fang: Averted when she encounters Jubilee who is still a vampire in site continuity. Their meeting was civil.
  • Our Werewolves Are Different: Her resemblance to a werewolf is incidental. She has a transitional and full wolf form and her powers are in no way tied to the moon. She also doesn't have a weakness to silver and the like.

     Played by Razor 

Midas (Ethan D’Aristotle)

Formerly a villain, when a literal personal demon was defeated, Dire unlocked new powers that adjusted for how he was then going to live his life. From that moment on, he dedicated himself to live the life of a TRUE king, and protect ALL of his people. He wanted to be the light of hope that he was before. Thus he donned a new name to start his life of heroics... Midas..
  • Heel–Face Turn
  • Friendly Enemy: Ethan’s short feud with Mister Malicious led to an unforeseen partnership between the two.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: Dire loved seeing people suffer for no apparent reason, especially people who deserved it. One time, he even shoved a homeless man off of a roof just for the heck of it!
  • Villain Teleportation: One of his powers as a villain was teleportation.

     Played by Rift 

Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)

The Ghost Rider is a man who first gained the powers of the Spirit of Vengeance when he made a Faustian deal. Now he is cursed to share his form with the angel Zarathos and met out justice with a shotgun and flaming motorcycle.
  • Anti-Hero: He's no hero and he isn't afraid to let you know it.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: Part and parcel to the whole Spirit of Vengeance thing.
  • Badass Biker: Ghost Rider. Add to that he's a stunt cyclist and a legend among the biker community
  • The Dreaded: Stories of the Ghost Rider and not being able to escape him are spread through the supernatural and criminal underworlds alike.
  • Deal with the Devil: Kind of how the whole thing got started, even if it was for a good reason.
  • Stepford Snarker: Johnny's life is one giant unending nightmare, but you wouldn't know it from the wall made of quips he surrounds himself with.
  • Escaped from Hell: Blaze literally slipped out of The Pit. Twice.
  • Cosmic Plaything: Heaven and Hell, Angels and Demons, all of them have manipulated Johnny for their own ends. Mephisto in particular loves yanking his chain whenever possible.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Blaze and Zarathos finally have an understanding, even if Johnny still questions the Rider's actions at times.
  • Limited Wardrobe: Have biker boots and leather jacket, will travel.
  • Long Lost Sibling: He had no idea he had a brother, let alone that his brother was a fellow Ghost Rider.
  • The Snark Knight: Superheroes, the devil, and even himself. No one is above a cynical insult.
  • Good is Not Nice: Innocents must be avenged at all costs and those that harm them are in for whole new worlds of pain and suffering.
  • Death Glare: The Penance Stare is almost literally this, inflicting pain and searing the soul based upon the severity of your misdeeds.
  • Badass Family: His mother Naomi was a Ghost Rider fighting against a family curse, his brother Danny is a Rider in his own right (bonded to the spirit of vengeance that is their ancestor), his father and step-father were daredevil stuntmen, and his cousin Jennifer Kale is a powerful sorceress.
  • The Drifter: Blaze never stays in one place wrong, traveling America's back roads and hating whenever he gets dragged into a big city for any significant amount of time.
  • Journey to the Center of the Mind: When the Penance Stare reacts differently to Deadpool, Johnny is treated to a highlight reel of the horrible things that have occurred in Wade's life without any ability to influence the events and running commentary from Deadpool himself.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted. Robbie Reyes, Danny Ketch, Johnny Blaze are all active Ghost Riders on site.

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker treated his new-found powers as a joke until the death of his Uncle Ben. Now he fights crime because, say it with us now, "With great power comes great responsibility". No longer played by Rift.
  • The Adjectival Superhero: And how. He even corrects people when they get them wrong!
  • Alternate Self: Several, most notably the CEO, a twisted and evil Peter Parker from a possible future.
  • Deadpan Snarker: All. The. Time. So much so it's possibly what friend and foe alike best know him for.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Spidey and Porcupine definitely apply. As do most the other heroes he's associated with.
  • Future Me Scares Me: After encountering the CEO, an evil version of himself from a possible future, Peter has been shaken to his core and is fearful of his own scientific prowess.
  • Guilt Complex: He has this in spades to such a degree he blames himself for things beyond his control that haven't even occurred yet!
  • Happily Married: Peter and Mary Jane are still going strong in board canon. OMD is a dirty word.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Deadpool (whether he likes it or not!)
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: Thanks most to J. Jonah Jameson. Even AFTER Spidey rescued him and the Daily Bugle from Carnage!
  • Offing the Mouth: Sometimes quips go too far, such as referring to Shriek's relationship with Carnage as "Rolling around on evil noodles" and Spidey gets hurt as a result.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Shriek started it and the Web-head responded in kind.

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