Character page for the Marvel Rising franchise: Marvel Rising the comic, as well as the animated continuity: Initiation, Secret Warriors, Chasing Ghosts, Ultimate Comics, Heart of Iron, Battle of the Bands, Operation Shuri, and Playing with Fire.

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Animated characters

The Secret Warriors

Quake (Daisy Johnson)

Voiced by: Chloe Bennet

Animated appearances: Initiation | Secret Warriors | Chasing Ghosts | Ultimate Comics | Heart of Iron

Comic appearances: Marvel Rising (2019)

An agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the leader of the Secret Warriors. Though she claims her quake powers come from her gauntlets, they're actually of Inhuman origin, but she keeps this information private.

Adaptation Dye-Job: She has purple streaks in her hair. Also, her natural hair is black, while the incarnation she is most heavily based on (also played by Chloe Bennet) has brown hair.
Adaptational Superpower Change: Quake is capable of manipulating the earth itself along with generating vibrations. She raises a wall of stone to cordon off an area and levitates a boulder as a projectile.
Bizarre Taste in Food: In Heart of Iron, her favorite thing to order at a vegan donut shop she regularly goes to is the zucchini-pomegranate crullers and she also enjoys the chia-kale cakes. Said donut shop also serves tofu-turnip twists and other "special donuts".
Kamala: Zucchini-pomegranate? Really?
Daddy Issues: Implied. The way she talks to Ghost Spider about "a father's disappointment" suggests that she has some experience with that.
Dark and Troubled Past: In Heart of Iron, she mentions that she's still dealing with her own issues and worries that this will get in the way of her being a good leader to the team.
Dishing Out Dirt: Her quake powers allow her to manipulate rock, such as raising a wall from the ground and opening and closing a hole in that wall so she can pass through.
The Leader: Captain Marvel appointed her as team leader.
Person of Mass Destruction: Her quake powers allow her to crack a blast door that can resist a nuclear detonation.
Purple Is Powerful: She has purple highlights in her hair, and her civilian outfit is mainly purple.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!:
- She pieces together that Gwen is Ghost Spider, and risks her reputation with the police to help her.
- Decided to bypass the Council and red tape to investigate the Inhumans on her own. It bites her in the butt when S.H.I.E.L.D. finds out and arrests her for falsifying records.
Written-In Absence: Her absence in the Battle of the Bands special is explained as her and Lockjaw being on a mission for S.H.I.E.L.D..

Patriot (Rayshaun Lucas)

Voiced by: Kamil McFadden

Badass Normal: He has no powers, just Captain America's training.
By-the-Book Cop: He tries to stick to the rulebook. Even after breaking the rules in Secret Warriors to break out Daisy, in Chasing Ghosts he still believes that following the rules is the only way to get things done. He starts to move away from this mindset by the end, largely thanks to Squirrel Girl.
Swiss-Army Weapon: His shield doubles as a missile launcher and a hoverboard.

Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan)

Voiced by: Kathreen Khavari

Comic appearances: Marvel Rising (2018) | Marvel Rising (2019)

Adaptational Backstory Change: In the comics, Kamala got her powers while leaving a midnight beach party that she snuck out to attend, getting hit by the Terrigen Mist cloud on the way home. In the cartoon, it happened at someone's backyard party in broad daylight.
Ambiguously Bi: Her Kamala Khanfidential file on Inferno has a bit of Ship Tease with her getting flustered after she accidentally calls him "really hot". She also fangirls over Captain Marvel, giggling and blushing when she meets her.
Ascended Extra: The movie makes her the lead character.
Combat Pragmatist: She is able to beat Exile at one point by tricking him into thinking she missed a punch, only to grab a coolant pipe behind him and freeze his armor until he collapses. Hala compliments her cunning despite Exile's protests.
Crush Blush: When around Dante, she either blushes or acts flustered.
Fangirl: Of Captain Marvel, who she wants to be more than anything.
Green-Eyed Monster: It's subtle, but still noteworthy. In "Playing With Fire", she's shown to be suspicious of Dante seemingly meeting a girl behind her back. It turns out to be his sister Gabriella, and she's relieved.
Healing Factor: She can heal minor wounds pretty quickly. It's not clear what the ceiling on her ability is.
Nice Girl: She's a nice person who will do anything for others.
Rubber Man: Her powers allow her to stretch herself to considerable lengths.
Shapeshifter: She can use her powers to take the form of others, including mimicking their voices, but it takes a lot of concentration to hold.
Ship Tease: With Dante. The two get close in Secret Warriors, and in Heart of Iron, she has a couple of moments where she stutters when he's around. Doreen teases her about it at the beginning of Heart of Iron. It's taken a step further in Playing With Fire , where she's prone to getting flustered around him.
Super Strength: Her strength grows in proportion to her size, so her giant-sized limbs can smash through debris effortlessly. Even at normal size, she has enough of a grip that Captain Marvel could feel it.

Squirrel Girl (Doreen Green)

Voiced by: Milana Vayntrub

Comic appearances: Marvel Rising (2018) | Marvel Rising (2019)

A friend, classmate, and fellow superhero of Kamala. She's interested in computer programming.

Age Lift: In the Marvel Rising comics (and her own comic series), Doreen is college age, and volunteers to teach Kamala's class. Here, her and Kamala are the same age.
Big Beautiful Woman: She's much more heavyset than most versions of the character, and she's also more conventionally attractive.
Dressed in Layers: At one point she rips off her civvie clothing to reveal her superhero costume. When asked how she can afford to do so, she explains that it's snap-on for easy removal. Tippy came up with the idea.
Innocently Insensitive: She's a fundamentally good person, but can be a bit insensitive when sticking to her guns.
Leeroy Jenkins: She's rather impulsive and quick to act.
Plucky Comic Relief: She's the main source of humor, but she's still a capable fighter.
Prehensile Tail: Her tail is capable of tossing an adult Kree effortlessly.
Ship Tease: She's pretty friendly with Rayshaun, as Kamala points out in the beginning of Heart of Iron.
Wall Crawl: Perhaps not to Ghost-Spider's level, but she can climb around the underside of a bridge with little effort.

America Chavez

Voiced by: Cierra Ramirez

Comic appearances: Marvel Rising (2018), Marvel Rising (2019)

A princess transported to another universe by her mothers during the destruction of her world. She wants nothing to do with heroics until it comes knocking at her door.

Adaptational Nice Guy: While she still has a temper, she's less overt in showing it off, being more stubborn and less entitled.
Adaptational Superpower Change: She shows no signs of her portaling powers from the comics, her parents sent her to Earth through a teleporter and she's implied to be stuck here.
Amazonian Beauty: She's very muscular, yet cute, attractive and beautiful.
Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: She's just called America Chavez here and doesn't bother with her Miss America persona.
Deadpan Snarker: In Playing with Fire, she responds to several situations with sarcasm.
Flying Brick: She has Super Strength, Super Toughness, and Flight as her powerset.
Has Two Mommies: She had two mothers.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As impulsive and hot-tempered as she is, she's ultimately a good person who just doesn't want trouble.
Secret Public Identity: She has no secret identity or codename, simply going by her real name.
Star Power: Every time she punches, kicks, or even lands, the impact is star-shaped.
Superman Substitute: In this continuity, her parents put her into an Interdimensional teleporter to save her from her dying world.
Vanity License Plate: Her bike has a vanity plate reading "BAAACK AWF".
Wrench Wench: She works as a mechanic at a garage.

Inferno (Dante Pertuz)

Voiced by: Tyler Posey

Comic appearances: Marvel Rising (2018) | Marvel Rising (2019)

Adaptation Dye-Job: He has red hair here instead of dark, no doubt to invoke Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance.
Dark and Troubled Past: Because of his powers, he accidentally burned down his own home.
Meaningful Name: Dante aka Inferno? Dante's Inferno.
Not What It Looks Like: Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel mistake his aiming a fireblast at Exile, who was behind them, for an attack on them.
Playing with Fire: He can generate fire from his hands.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In Secret Warriors. As often as he tries to help, he ends up making things worse.

Lockjaw

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: Secret Warriors | Chasing Ghosts | Heart of Iron | Playing With Fire

Big Friendly Dog: He's roughly the size of a car, and very friendly toward the heroes.
Teleporters and Transporters: He can teleport himself and others at least the distance from the Moon to Earth.

Tippy-Toe

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Comic appearances: Marvel Rising (2018) | Marvel Rising (2019)

Squirrel Girl's squirrel companion.

Amplified Animal Aptitude: Understands human speech, communicates very eloquently to Squirrel Girl, and talented enough to keep Ghost Spider from web-swinging away by herself.
Animal Companion: Squirrel Girl's ever-present squirrel companion, who often makes gestures in unison with her.

Ghost-Spider (Gwen Stacy)

Voiced by: Dove Cameron

Adaptational Backstory Change: It's implied that this Gwen was a hero from the day she got her superpowers, unlike her comic book counterpart who used it for fame before becoming a crimefighter. Also, comic book Gwen was directly involved with her best friend's death and blames herself for the incident, which strengthened her need to be a hero to make up for it. In contrast, Rising Gwen's best friend was already dead by the time she found him, murdered by a Kree villain who framed her for the act.
Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, Gwen uses web-shooters. In Playing with Fire, Zayla is able to steal Ghost-Spider's web powers, revealing that her webs are organic instead of coming from web-shooters, similar to Peter Parker's from the Spider-Man Trilogy.
Adaptation Deviation: This version of Gwen is a singer as well as a drummer, taking advantage of her voice actress's abilities.
Adaptation Dye-Job: She has pink strands on the end of her otherwise blond hair, seemingly in reference to Gwenpool.
Adaptation Name Change: Spider-Gwen calls herself Ghost-Spider instead of Spider-Woman here. However, in a piece of Ret-Canon, the Gwen of the comic would use this as a new codename upon Marvel's concurrent Fresh Start relaunch.
Animal-Themed Superbeing: Take a wild guess.
Age Lift: Whereas Gwen is college-aged in the comics, her Rising counterpart is a teenager.
All Drummers Are Animals: She's the drummer in a garage band, with her friends being expies of The Mary Janes from the comics. Like in the comics, she uses the drums to vent her frustrations, much to the dismay of her fellow bandmates.
Catchphrase: She uses "webs" as an exclamation.
Clear My Name: Her modus operandi for Initiation and Chasing Ghosts, with her efforts at doing this and avenging Kevin's death having her spend weeks away from home while searching for the real killer, with her friend Glory reluctantly agreeing to hide her whereabouts.
Deadpan Snarker: She lets out quite a few quippy remarks, as expected from a Spider-hero.
Gadgeteer Genius: At least to a greater extent than her comic book counterpart, as she is capable of making small tracking devices.
I Work Alone: She really isn't keen on accepting help. So much so that she goes through extra effort to break into The Secret Warriors' headquarters and steal the tracking technology that they were freely offering to let her use. She does lighten up on this a little, eventually.
Lead Drummer: While her band is still called The Mary Janes, in the cartoon Gwen sings too.
Ret-Canon: Taken from this Spider-Gwen would change her codename from "Spider-Woman" to "Ghost-Spider".

Ironheart (Riri Williams)

Voiced by: Sofia Wylie

Appearances: Heart of Iron | Battle of the Bands

A fifteen year-old engineering student at Empire Tech, one of the school's most youngest students. After losing her stepdad in a car accident, she's become inspired by the likes of Tony Starks and his exploits as Iron Man to use her mechanical expertise to become a superhero to help people, subsequently leading to her attending Empire Tech in hopes of creating her own powersuit.

Adaptational Backstory Change: In the comics, her stepfather died in a drive-by shooting when she was thirteen. Here, he died in a car accident when she was ten. This was presumably changed due to the Lighter and Softer tone of Marvel Rising.
Adaptational Nice Guy: While she's still aloof and way into her technology, she's not entitled. More emphasis is put on her simply putting too much focus trying to do the right thing, and she is already used to being left out, not really expecting others to include her, which does visibly hurt her.
Dark and Troubled Past: Riri's stepfather died five years ago in a car accident, which she believes she could have somehow prevented. Not wanting to feel helpless when people's lives are at stake, this has become Riri's motivation in using her genius to become a superhero like Tony Stark.
Grade Skipper: Riri is 15 and a college student.
The Sixth Ranger: She is introduced in Heart of Iron, after most of the other "Secret Warriors" have already been introduced.
Teen Genius: Riri is a fifteen year old and already attends Empire Tech.

Other Heroes

Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)

Voiced by: Kim Raver

Appearances: Secret Warriors | Heart of Iron | Operation Shuri

The Ace: One of Earth's mightiest heroes and generally beloved. She even acknowledges it when telling Ms. Marvel to be herself.
Flying Brick: Super strong, super tough, and can fly through space.
Flying Firepower: She can fly and shoot energy beams from her hands.
Reasonable Authority Figure: When Daisy informs her of the Kree kidnapping Inhumans, Captain Marvel goes right along with it even though Daisy and Rayshaun just broke out of prison and stole a S.H.I.E.L.D. jet. After the battle, she helps form the Secret Warriors because she was impressed by their performance.

Captain America (Steve Rogers)

Voiced by: Roger Craig Smith

Appearances: Secret Warriors | Chasing Ghosts^note | Ultimate Comics

The Cameo: In Secret Warriors, while Kamala recalls how she first got her powers, one of the heroes she accidentally transforms into during her Power Incontinence is Captain America. He later shows up at the end of the special.
Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears for a minute at the movie's end, but it's revealed he secretly and indirectly helped form the team to help Patriot step out of his shadow.

Iron Man (Tony Stark)

Voiced by: Mick Wingert

Appearances: Ultimate Comics | Heart of Iron

Thor

Voiced by: Travis Willingham

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Hawkeye

Voiced by: JP Karliak

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Blur

Voiced by: Melanie Minichino

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Super Speed: She can run super fast.

Doctor Strange

Voiced by: Liam O'Brien

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

The Hulk

Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Maria Hill

Voiced by: Vanessa Marshall

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

A high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. operative.

A.M.I.

Voiced by: Melanie Minichino

Appearances: Heart of Iron

Riri's AI in her modified Iron Man powersuit.

Benevolent A.I.: She is Riri's friend.
Brainwashed and Crazy: In Heart of Iron, after Hala steals the powersuit, she does this to A.M.I. using a virus. She gets better.
Canon Foreigner: She was created for Heart of Iron.
Heroic Sacrifice: Once she turns back to normal, she tells Riri to shut down the suit that houses her to save the city. She's reluctant and distraught, but ultimately goes through with it.
Meaningful Name: "Ami" is "friend" in French.
Nice Girl: She's willing to make sure that Riri is safe and doesn't lose sight of the important things in life.

Shuri

Voiced by: Daisy Lightfoot

Appearances: Operation Shuri

The Ace: She's good at everything she tries, to the growing frustration of America, Kamala, Doreen, and Gwen.
Clothes Make the Superman: Shuri's tech is stored in her bracelet.
Gadgeteer Genius: She's the lead innovator of Wakandan technology.
Mr. Fixit: She quickly fixes a mechanical problem that America had been stuck on for days.

Black Panther

Voiced by: James C. Mathis III

Appearances: Operation Shuri (voice only)

Big Brother Mentor: He looks out for Shuri's personal development. In his one speaking line in Operation Shuri, he's asking her if she'd been able to hang out with the Secret Warriors, and at the end of the special, it's revealed he and Captain Marvel had been hoping Shuri and the Secret Warriors could learn from each other. In Captain Marvel's words, "your brother wanted to make sure you didn't forget how to be a teenager."

Villains

Exile (Victor Kohl)

Voiced by: Booboo Stewart

Appearances: Secret Warriors | Chasing Ghosts

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Presents himself as a heroic figure to Kamala and Doreen at first, but it doesn't take long for his true colors to shine.
Composite Character: Obviously he's based on the Exile from the comics, but he also shares some similarities to Kamran, an Inhuman villain that Ms. Marvel fought in the comics, being a handsome young man trying to convince Kamala to join his side.
Dragon-in-Chief: To Hala; while she spends much of her time on her ship and only does battle with Captain Marvel and America Chavez near the end, he actively goes out and hunts down Inhuman children to serve her plans.
Fantastic Racism: Despite having presumably thought himself to be a normal human until relatively recently, he repeatedly shows disdain towards them.
Freudian Excuse: Victor was rejected by his parents and peers after his powers were activated. He believes a nation of Inhumans is the only place he can belong.
Imagination-Based Superpower: He can use his energy to form various constructs, such as weapons and armor. He can also give himself claws and even create a giant demonic entity which he pilots. However, his usage of this energy seems limited solely to himself, so he can't form constructs that aren't specifically centered on him.
One-Winged Angel: He turns into a gigantic, shadowy minotaur-esque creature during the climax.
Super Supremacist: Even after Hala's defeat, he keeps trying to find a way to create an Inhuman army, believing that Inhumans are superior to normal humans and deserve to rule the world.
Thinking Up Portals: He can generate portals to any location he pleases, which manifest as a purple glowing circle beneath his feet.

Hala the Accuser

Voiced by: Ming-Na Wen

Appearances: Secret Warriors | Heart of Iron

Big Bad: Every problem that the team has dealt with so far (in the animated specials) can be traced back to her or her followers.
Combat Pragmatist: Points out to Exile when he's defeated by Ms. Marvel that there's no such thing as a fair fight in war.
Villainous Legacy: After her defeat in "Secret Warriors", Exile tries to continue her work in creating an army of Inhumans.

Sheath

Voiced by: Amanda C�line Miller

Appearances: Initiation | Chasing Ghosts

Adaptational Superpower Change: Sheath generates blades made of electrical energy rather than pulling them from her body.
Arch-Enemy: Gwen has a personal vendetta against her for killing Kevin.
Hero Killer: Killed Kevin, who was training to be Ghost Spider/Gwen's partner.
Life Drain: Her energy daggers drain the life from whoever they cut.

Loki

Voiced by: JP Karliak

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

The Wrecking Crew

Wrecker voiced by: JP Karliak

Piledriver and Bulldozer voiced by: John Dimaggio

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Ulth-Lah-Throth

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Combat Tentacles: Uses his tentacles to attack and throw things.
Extra Eyes: Has numerous eyes on the center of his body.
Octopoid Aliens: An interdimensional alien with some resemblance to an octopus.
Tentacled Terror: A tentacled alien that shows up in the city, attacking people.

Attuma

Voiced by: Dan Donahue

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Abomination

Voiced by: Carlos Alazraqui

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Taskmaster

Voiced by: Brian Bloom

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Supreme Intelligence

The Supreme Intelligence

Voiced by: Dee Bradley Baker

Appearances: Heart of Iron

Screaming Mimi

Screaming Mimi (Melissa Gold)

Voiced by: Tara Strong

Appearances: Battle of the Bands

Barrier Warrior: She can form a barrier with her scream.
Cheaters Never Prosper: She tried to fix the contest her band was performing at by stalling the competition. Stopping to fight the Secret Warriors causes her be late and her band going on without her.
Clothes Make the Superman: Her powers come from the tech in her necklace.
Flight: Her necklace's power gives her insectoid wings...somehow.
Green and Mean: Her color scheme is green, as are her sound waves.
Make Me Wanna Shout: Her main attack is a sonic scream.
Metal Scream: What we see of her musical performance. Gwen even snarks regarding her stage name "empashis on the 'screaming'".

Zayla

Voiced by: Navia Z. Robinson

Appearances: Playing with Fire

The daughter of the Shocktress and Invisibilio.

Canon Foreigner: She and her parents were made for Marvel Rising.
Muggle Born of Mages: Zayla's parents both have powers, and she laments she didn't wind up with any. When she obtains the necklace and gains the ability to steal powers, she quickly becomes obsessed with gaining more.
Power Parasite: Her magic necklace allows her to steal the power of whoever she touches.
"Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Zayla's supervillain parents have never let her forget she was born without powers. Small wonder she's so desperate to steal other people's powers.

The Shocktress and Invisiblio

The Shocktress voiced by: Niecy Nash

Invisiblio voiced by: Gary Cole

Appearances: Playing with Fire

Zayla's parents, a supervillain duo.

Canon Foreigner: They were made for Marvel Rising.
Invisibility: Invisiblio's ability.
Shock and Awe: The Shocktress has electric powers.

Friends and Family

Capt. George Stacy

Captain George Stacy

Voiced by: Steven Weber

Appearances: Initiation | Chasing Ghosts | Battle of the Bands

Archnemesis Dad: Unknowingly this towards his daughter, Ghost Spider.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's very strict and no nonsense, but cares deeply for his daughter Gwen.
Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: He sees Ghost Spider as nothing but a menace due to murdering his daughter Gwen's friend, not realizing that she's his daughter.

Muneeba Khan

Voiced by: Meera Rohit Kumbhani

Appearances: Secret Warriors | Ultimate Comics | Playing With Fire

Kamala's mother, or "ammi".

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's very strict with Kamala, but she wants what's best for her.
Pet the Dog: Her first scene in the movie has her being harsh on Kamala and wanting her to do more with herself. In her second scene, upon seeing her distressed and snappish, she does what she can to console her.

Mary Jane Watson

Voiced by: Tara Strong

Appearances: Initiation | Chasing Ghosts | Battle of the Bands | Operation Shuri

Adaptational Nice Guy: The Mary Jane in the Spider-Gwen comics was more of a selfish Jerkass who only cared about attention before undergoing a little Character Development; this Mary Jane is pretty nice from the get-go.
Egocentric Team Naming: Her band, The Mary Janes - although she appears to only play the guitar in the cartoon.
Mythology Gag: She sports the same straight bob-cut she had in Spider-Man: The New Animated Series.

Glory Grant

Voiced by: Skai Jackson

Appearances: Initiation | Chasing Ghosts | Battle of the Bands | Operation Shuri

Adaptation Deviation: Glory in the Spider-Gwen comics plays a keytar. This version of Glory uses a keyboard.
Pet the Dog: She does at least consider that Gwen might be right about Ghost Spider's innocence.

Kevin

Voiced by: Max Mittelman

Appearances: Initiation

Canon Foreigner: Wasn't a character in the comics and was created for Marvel Rising.
Childhood Friends: Was this with Gwen.
An Ice Person: Was able to generate ice blasts.
Plot-Triggering Death: His death causes Ghost-Spider to become wanted by S.H.I.E.L.D. and the police.
Secret-Keeper: Knew that Gwen was Ghost-Spider and kept it secret.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Towards Peter in the Spider-Gwen comics.

Yusuf Khan

Voiced by: Tony Mirrcandani

Appearances: Ultimate Comics | Playing With Fire

Kamala's father.

Aamir Khan

Voiced by:

Appearances:

Kamala's brother.

Bruno Carrelli

Voiced by: JP Karliak

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Secret-Keeper: Knows Kamala's identity as Ms. Marvel.

Nancy Whitehead

Nancy

Voiced by: Ashleigh Crystal Hairston

Appearances: Ultimate Comics

Secret-Keeper: Knows Doreen's identity as Squirrel Girl.

Robert

Voiced by: Robbie Daymond

Appearances: Heart of Iron

One of Riri's friends at Empire Tech.

Canon Foreigner: He was created for Heart of Iron.
Ink-Suit Actor: He intentionally resembles his voice actor, Robbie Daymond, except Race Lifted into a character of indigenous descent.

Sarah

Voiced by: Lisa Luck

Appearances: Heart of Iron

One of Riri's friends at Empire Tech.

Ambiguously Brown: Judging by her physical appearance, she may be Asian-American.
Canon Foreigner: She was created for Heart of Iron.
Innocently Insensitive:
- She doesn't invite Riri to a party at a club, since Riri is a workaholic and seems to blow off anything that doesn't relate to her work, in addition to Riri possibly being too young to go anyways. As a result, Riri feels hurt from her exclusion and it further pushes Riri to believe that she doesn't need anything like friends.
- When Hala attacks Empire Tech, she initially doesn't listen to Riri saying that they should evacuate the lab and thinks that taking shelter in place would be safer, and when other students are in danger, she tells Riri to forget about them and just watch out for themselves. Riri takes this as a Not Now, Kid and is upset that Sarah seems to value her own life over others, especially since Riri is a strong believer of helping those in need.

Natalie Washington

Voiced by: Daisy Lightfoot

Appearances: Heart of Iron

A friend and neighbor of Riri.

Spared by the Adaptation: In the comics, she died in the same drive-by shooting that killed both her and Riri's stepfather. Here, Riri's stepfather died in a car accident and she attends his funeral.

Gabriella Pertuz

Gabriela "Gabi" Pertuz

Voiced by: Jeannie Tirado

Appearances: Playing With Fire

Dante's sister.

Others

Wilson

Voiced by: Roger Craig Smith

Appearances: Secret Warriors | Ultimate Comics | Operation Shuri (voice only)

Boss of Wilson's Auto, the garage where America works. The Avengers bought the place and had the Secret Warriors' base constructed underneath, though the garage apparently continues to operate as normal.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be a jerk and rough around the edges. In Secret Warriors, he chuckles as he informs America that her bike is being stolen^note, and in Operation Shuri, when he calls to America from the other room that she'd better not be working on her bike, saying that he doesn't pay her to fix her own stuff, Shuri comments, "Your boss seems� nice." However, in Ultimate Comics, he has some friendly interaction with America and gives her some heartfelt life advice.

Karl

Voiced by: Roger Craig Smith

Appearances: Chasing Ghosts | Heart of Iron

The owner of Excelsior!, a vegan donut shop.

Bizarre Taste in Food: The types of donuts he serves at his shop include zucchini-pomegranate, tofu-turnip, basil rhubarb crunch, and honey arugula. One of the less weirder ones seems to be chia-kale cakes, although they're rather turquoise-colored...
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: He is modeled after the late Stan Lee, and his shop is named for Stan's life motto, "Excelsior!". Unfortunately, presumably due to Stan's passing during the production of Heart of Iron, he does not voice Karl and thus averts Ink-Suit Actor.
The Ghost: Dante and Kamala talk about his shop in Playing With Fire.
It's Probably Nothing: He doesn't seem to find anything odd about Kamala and Daisy oddly emphasizing that they're on a team of bowlers, especially with Riri walking in loudly confronting Daisy about stealing her power suit and her being an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. while Daisy quite obviously gets Karl to go away by requesting his special donuts from the back of the shop.
Nice Guy: At the very least, he does value his customers.

Zoe Zimmer

Voiced by: Jessica DiCicco

Appearances: Operation Shuri

Comics-only characters

Ember Quade

Ember Quade (Emulator)

Appearances: Marvel Rising (2018) | Marvel Rising (2019)

Deadpan Snarker: She's snarky to the gamer guys she beats after they accuse her of cheating and being lucky.
The Dog Bites Back: She uses her powers to get revenge on the guys who got her server-banned.
Gamer Chick: She games a lot and handily beats some guys at a game.
Headphones Equal Isolation: When she first appears in Marvel Rising #0, she's wearing earphones, showing her disengagement from the class field trip as she looks at her tablet. She doesn't even notice at first when A.I.M. invades the museum.
Imagination-Based Superpower: She can manifest just about anything she can imagine.
Reality Warper: As her power grows, her ability to bring video game characters into reality expands into the ability to overlay entire virtual worlds on top of it.
Really Moves Around: She lives with her single mom, who's always moving to a new place with her in hopes for a fresh start.
Shock and Awe: Her powers drain electricity to power themselves.

Arcade

Appearances: Marvel Rising (2018)

Big Bad: In the 2018 series. He's the one behind Ember's villainy, and the big final battle is against him.
Chekhov's Gunman: Arcade is mentioned offhand in one issue, and turns out to be the Big Bad.
The Svengali: Arcade grooms Ember online to become a supervillain so that he can steal her powers.

Morgan Le Fay

Appearances: Marvel Rising (2019)

Big Bad: The main antagonist of the 2019 comic book series.

Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

Appearances: Marvel Rising (2019)

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Animated characters

The Secret Warriors

Other Heroes

Maria Hill

A.M.I.

Villains

Ulth-Lah-Throth

Zayla

The Shocktress and Invisiblio

Friends and Family

Captain George Stacy

Muneeba Khan

Kevin

Yusuf Khan

Aamir Khan

Robert

Sarah

Natalie Washington

Gabriela "Gabi" Pertuz

Others

Wilson

Karl

Comics-only characters

Ember Quade (Emulator)

Alternative Title(s): Marvel Rising Secret Warriors, Marvel Rising Initiation, Marvel Rising Chasing Ghosts, Marvel Rising Ultimate Comics, Marvel Rising Heart Of Iron, Marvel Rising Battle Of The Bands, Marvel Rising Operation Shuri, Marvel Rising Playing With Fire

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aka: Marvel Rising Chasing Ghosts