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Character tropes for the There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton series.

Heroes

The Avengers

Iron Man

Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark/Iron Man

The armored Avenger and the former CEO of Stark Industries, as well as the financer for the Avengers.

Can't Catch Up: After seeing Thor deep fry Vilgax with intense lightning in their battle, he briefly laments that no matter how much he upgrades his armor, he'll still pale in comparison to what Avengers like the Hulk, Thor, and Supergirl are capable of.
Cool, but Inefficient: The Freeze Ray he creates is pretty useless against fires, as while it can freeze a singular target, it can't do much against omnidirectional flames.
Crazy-Prepared: The Avengers Tower "Trophy Room", a vault for dangerous artifacts like the Vilgax crystal, can actually be detached from the building in an emergency, and be carried by repulsors to anywhere in five-thousand miles, even to near-Earth orbit.
The Face: He's very skilled with socialization thanks to his charm and charisma. Word of God states that he's the most popular of the Avengers In-Universe because of this.
Freeze Ray: Develops one, then gets into a debate over what to name it. He settles on calling it the Freon Beam.
Gadgeteer Genius: He's a genius when it comes to science and technology. Kara notes that out of all the tech she's seen on Earth, his comes the closest to replicating Kryptonian advancement. He's also shown to frequently be working on new tech in his lab during his free time, such as the aforementioned freeze ray and the Hulkbuster armor alongside Banner.
Gayngst: While he shows none in present day, he implies to Kara that he went through this growing up due to his father's disapproval of him being pansexual.
Hero with Bad Publicity: While an immensely popular hero, not everyone is accepting his change of heart at face value and many victims of his past actions still have a great deal of ire for him.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be arrogant and full of himself, but he deeply cares for his friends and goes out of his way to help the citizens directly in the aftermath of the Battle of New York as well as provide aid to Spider-Man without any prompting.
My Greatest Failure: That Which Drives Nerds to Change the World reveals that he still feels guilty about how Stane was able to do a lot of shady stuff under his roof because he wasn't more attentive. Part of why he decides to attend the SFIT showcase after around a decade of ignoring Granville's invitations is because he wants to see what his funding created and hopefully see some of the good that came out of his past mistakes.
Nay-Theist: He was originally an atheist, but he does acknowledge the existence of higher powers now that he's an Avenger and has seen some insane shit. Of course, that doesn't mean he's gonna drop to his knees and start worshipping them either.
Power Armor: Obviously. He is Iron Man, after all.
Science Hero: He's hyperintelligent on a level most scientific geniuses can never hope to match, thanks to inventing the Iron Man armor among many other inventions in his spare time, and he's also one of Earth's foremost superheroes.
Super-Strength: Naturally his different armors make him much stronger than the average human. The armor he wore to fight Vilgax had a maximum lifting strength of approximately 200 tons.
The Team Benefactor: He uses his Fiction 500 levels of wealth to finance and provide for the Avengers, even turning his tower into a headquarters that doubles as a living space for current and future teammates.
Worf Had the Flu: He was limited in his first fight against Yokai by the worries of collateral damage from fighting in a major city, along with protecting the future Big Hero 6.

Captain America

Steve Rogers/Captain America

The only successful recipient of the Super Soldier Serum and the leader of the Avengers.

Fish out of Temporal Water: He's a man from the 1940s now in the New 10s. SHIELD is apparently worried that he'll suffer from culture shock staying out in the open so much and tries to limit his contact with the world. Steve finds this frustrating to deal with.
Humble Hero: He openly admits that he considers the other Avengers to be better heroes than he is, despite him being the Ideal Hero.
Natasha: Like it or not, Cap...you've always been the best of us.
Steve: I'll respectfully disagree. I just have a knack for surrounding myself with the best.
The Leader: Has this role on the Avengers, with the others defering to his orders in battle.
Living Legend: He's regarded as this due to his exploits against HYDRA in the second World War, with people like Alex and Phil looking highly to him.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His main tool is his indestructible shield, which he uses well against the Centipede Mercenaries as well as against the Fantastic Four and Vilgax.
Military Superhero: Well, he was an actual Captain in the US army who fought against the Nazis in the second World War, after all.
Nice Guy: He's a polite, noble person who always seeks to help others regardless of the risk to himself.
Workaholic: He tends to throw himself into helping others whenever he has issues to work out. It gets noted that after the Avengers are established, he hasn't taken his suit off once.

Thor

Thor Odinson

The Norse God of Thunder.

Arbitrary Skepticism: He originally didn't believe that the Omnitrix existed and thought it was a myth. Kara reminds him that Earth originally saw him as a myth as well.
Blood Knight: Thor loves a good brawl, thrilling in matching his might against powerful foes such as Vilgax, practically having the time of his life as he and the Hulk tag team him.
Boisterous Bruiser: He's among the strongest Avengers, being on the same level as Supergirl and the Hulk, and he's practically the most jovial member with how cheerfully he greets everyone.
Crippling Overspecialization: Admits that his mystical abilities are pretty much entirely focused on his Shock and Awe powers.
The Ghost: Is this for most of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk due to being busy handling cosmic threats in the wake of his brother's crimes during the Battle of New York, only being referenced to a few times by the other Avengers throughout the story. He finally makes his first appearance in Chapter 27 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk when he returns from travelling the cosmos.
Gods Need Prayer Badly: Averted. He explicitly is not affected by belief or prayer the same way that the Olympians are. Personally, he finds the whole idea weird.
Hunk: He's widely seen to be very muscular and attractive. Even when heavily garbed in civilian attire to visit the Greek gods, his chiseled physique drew many people's attention.
Only the Chosen May Wield: His hammer, Mjölnir, can only be wielded by those it deems worthy of it. Thus far, Thor has been the only one shown to be able to use it, but Hercules briefly managing to make the hammer budge implies he has the potential to be worthy as well.
Physical God: Referred to as this due to him being the actual Norse God of Thunder. This is even mused upon by Gwen, as due to his divine power, he emits far more mythical energy than she does, with her comparing him to the center of a galaxy after he compares her output to a star amidst the void of space.
Really 700 Years Old: He's a Norse God that's older than every other Avenger put together, having visited Olympus around 1,000 years ago. Word of God states that he's around 1,500 years old.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: He's the prince of Asgard and he's usually off fighting whatever threats plague the Nine Realms, returns to Earth to help fight off Vilgax's invasion, and aids in tracking down Doctor Doom.
Shock and Awe: He is the god of thunder after all. He struck Vilgax with enough lighting to leave him burned to a crisp and covered in Lichtenberg scarring.
Story-Breaker Power: While he isn't as powerful as Supergirl, he is within the same ballpark as her and has far more experience. He spends most of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk fighting in the cosmos after the fallout of the Battle of New York, so he doesn't make things too one-sided towards the Avengers' favor. He only returns to the plot when a threat that requires all the Avengers to win makes itself known.
Strong and Skilled: While just below Supergirl and the Hulk, he is within the same weight class as them and is leagues stronger than any of the other Avengers put together. Not to mention that he's been engaging in battles for literal centuries, making him the most experienced and seasoned warrior among them.
Super-Speed: He regularly flies at faster than hypersonic speeds using Mjölnir. He can even spin it so fast that, according to Tony, it pretty much defies every law of physics he can think of.
Super-Strength: While just below Supergirl and a fully enraged Hulk, he is strong enough to keep pace with them and is in the exact same weight class as they are. This is even shown during their battle with Vilgax, where he throws down with the Scourge of the Black Order. It's also implied that had he and the Hulk not been busy holding off Vilgax, he could have helped tow the Chimeran Hammer into orbit, with Word of God confirming as such.
Weak, but Skilled: Downplayed. While exceeded in strength by Supergirl and the Hulk at the height of his anger, he can still keep pace with them strength-wise and is well within their weight class. He also has far more versatility than them thanks to his hammer and mythical electrokinetic abilities combined with his centuries of experience and combat mastery, which contrasts their Unskilled, but Strong fighting styles.
Weapon Twirling: Pretty much a given considering how he normally wields Mjölnir. He does this to summon storms, gather energy, and block attacks, with him spinning the hammer so fast that it bypasses all laws of physics.
You Are a Credit to Your Race: The trolls have long since become disillusioned to Asgardians since Odin never helped them after the war, but they still regard Thor with respect and reverence.

The Hulk

Robert Bruce Banner/The Hulk

Former scientist under General Ross, whose experiments led to him becoming one of the most feared beings in the world.

Blood Knight: The Hulk relishes in fighting tough opponents. He greatly enjoyed his spar with Supergirl and he cackled like a madman while fighting Vilgax, even when he was being punched in the face.
Brilliant, but Lazy: Not Banner, but the Hulk. Banner states that thanks to him and the Hulk sharing a brain, the Hulk is actually every bit as intelligent as Banner. It's just that he doesn't care about anything that doesn't involve fighting.
Crazy-Prepared: Admits that he basically wears his Magic Pants 24/7 now on the off-chance he turns into the Hulk by accident.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite all the good he did in the Battle of New York, the destructive abilities and personality of the Hulk, combined with his past woes, lead to him thinking of himself as more of a threat than a hero. He's even the one to request and play a role in designing the Hulkbuster specifically to kill him if need be.
Hulk Speak: Trope Namer after all. He communicates this way to Supergirl during and after their spar.
Magic Pants: A given, though it's given justification since they were designed for both of his forms as Banner and the Hulk as well as to be durable enough to withstand what he fights.
Story-Breaker Power: As the Hulk, he's the strongest of the Avengers, but also the most destructive. Because of this and his personal issues regarding the Hulk, he doesn't enter the field very often. If he did, things would get pretty one-sided.
Super-Strength: Enough to trade blows with and even overwhelm Supergirl when angry enough. He is the Hulk after all.
Super-Toughness: As seen while sparring, he can withstand Supergirl's toughest attacks and continue fighting.
World's Strongest Man: He is the Hulk after all. While his base level starts off weaker than Supergirl, he gets stronger with rage and there isn't a defined limit to his strength. Tests show that a fully enraged Hulk's strength exceeds Supergirl's.
Worthy Opponent: The Hulk considers Supergirl and Thor as this, since they're both among the few who can contend with his strength.

Supergirl

Kara Danvers/Kara Zor-El/Supergirl

The last daughter of Krypton.

Amazonian Beauty: She's tall, muscular, and very attractive. It even gets lampshaded and when she undergoes clothing damage, Skye gives her a bit of Male Gaze directed at her toned abs.
Closest Thing We Got: It's revealed that this is the reason why Doctor Doom and the original Reed pulled her into the iterations of their universe. They wanted to bring her cousin, Superman, as the ideal symbol of truth and justice to rally the forces of their universe against Thanos and the Black Order when the time came. However, Superman, as the center of the DC Metaverse and a "load-bearing pillar" for each universe he's in, couldn't be removed from the universe of Earth-16 without causing its collapse, and Kara was fated to die in that world anyway, so they pulled her out instead, though Reed thinks that even doing that much was pushing it.
Costume Evolution: After both her first bitter defeat and her original suit is completely destroyed, she decides that the next incarnation of her suit will lack a skirt.
Death by Adaptation: Played With. While she is obviously still alive in the story, Chapter 33 reveals that Kara is from Earth-16, destined to died along with the majority of Krypton until she was brought to the current iteration of the MCU by Doctor Doom and Reed Richards. This wound up becomes retroactively applied after Young Justice: Phantoms, with the Wham Shot of Kara alive and serving Darkseid in the season finale.
Dimensional Traveler: It's revealed in Chapter 33 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk that she's actually from a different universe. Specifically, she's from Earth-16.
Disabled in the Adaptation: Downplayed. Her laser vision's first manifestation damaged her corneas, so she's legitimately slightly near-sighted and needs her glasses instead of them just being a disguise.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Happens to her in Chapter 23 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk, courtesy of Doctor Doom using a Kryptonite dagger.
Last of His Kind: As far as she knows, she's the last living Kryptonian. Though this isn't quite the case anymore since Ben gained the ability to become a Kryptonian, but only by technicality.
Nice Girl: She's an absolute sweetheart who's open-minded and looks to help others no matter what.
Nigh-Invulnerable: While she can feel pain from blunt force trauma, only characters like Thor, the Hulk, and the Thing have the necessary strength to actually hurt her that way. Her skin, meanwhile, can only be penetrated by either magic or Kryptonite.
No-Sell: Besides most forms of physical attack that aren't within her class of strength, she's also completely immune to the power dampeners in the captured Fantastic Four members cells, likely due to her alien biology.
Pride Before a Fall: While a genuinely nice person, having had nothing overwhelm her in direct combat for much of her story led to her gaining a bit of an ego regarding her power. In her fight with Doctor Doom, she even expresses a lot of pride in her power, which ultimately leads to Doom stabbing her with a Kryptonite dagger, leaving her powerless, helpless, and terrified.
Scars Are Forever: As revealed in Chapter 26 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk, Doom stabbing her through the stomach with a Kryptonite dagger left a scar, apparently a permanent one, above her navel and a smaller, matching one on her back.
Secret Identity: Averted since she blew it helping people during the invasion.
Story-Breaker Power: The only two Avengers that are in her league in terms of raw power are Thor and the Hulk, and Thor's off-world most of the time. She far outstrips the rest of them in terms of sheer might since she's a major winner of the Superpower Lottery while the rest are either badass normals, amped up through Power Armor, or a case of Charles Atlas Superpower. It ends up being deconstructed in Chapter 23 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk, as Doctor Doom's casual dismantling of all of them alongside stabbing her with a Kryptonite dagger shows them that they became too reliant on her as a consequence of this.
Superpower Lottery: She's a Kryptonian after all, so the entire Flying Brick package plus Super-Speed and Eye Beams is pretty much a given.
Super-Speed: Given that she's a Kryptonian, she can fly faster than airliners. However, she starts out much slower than normal Kryptonian flight speeds in other media, with her not even being able to break the sound barrier at the start.
Super-Strength: She frequently lifts extremely heavy objects without effort and rips Titanium Man's armor apart when pressed. The only Avengers in the same weight class as her when it comes to raw physical might are Thor and the Hulk, and only the Hulk can outright surpass her in strength. She's even strong enough to tow the Chimeran Hammer into orbit, though it took a lot of effort and she required the assistance of Ben while he was in the form of Power Girl to pull it off.
Super-Toughness: She is Supergirl after all. While not invincible, as attacks from characters as strong as the Thing and Hulk can both hurt and knock her around while strong electrical currents can incapacitate her, she's still insanely tough to damage.
Trauma Button: Thanks to her near death at Dr. Doom's hands, Kryptonite has become one for her.
Unskilled, but Strong: She's had her powers ever since she landed years ago, but she's never once had to use them combatively. Clint and Natasha both call her out on how her fighting style sucks and is too strength reliant. This really comes to head in Chapter 23 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk, as despite her superior strength, Doctor Doom's greater versatility, experience, and pragmatic use of Kryptonite leave her broken and bleeding out.
The Worf Effect: She gets knocked out by Titanium Man using a concentrated blast of the Tesseract's power and later nearly killed by Doctor Doom.

Hawkeye

Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton/Hawkeye

One of SHIELD's best agents and a master archer.

Everyone Has Standards: He expresses disgust upon hearing about the bullying Alex received in her youth over her sexuality.
Out of Focus: Out of all the Avengers, he's gotten the least attention character-wise. Even during Vilgax's invasion of Arcadia, he's out on a separate mission and doesn't take part in the events of "Horizon".
The Straight and Arrow Path: Like canon, he wields a bow and arrow set in the modern world of high-tech weaponry.

Black Widow

Agent Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

A former KGB assassin and now one of SHIELD's best agents.

Badass Normal: She's a talented spy and assassin with no superhuman abilities of her own, yet she can fight alongside her more superhuman team members without issue.
Bilingual Bonus: She calls Matt Murdock "d’yavolenok", which is Russian for devil. She also later mutters "Bozhe moy" (Russian for "My God") when SWORD shows up.
Dark Is Not Evil: Her primary attire is her black Spy Catsuit and she's affiliated with a shadowy organization, but she's ultimately one of the good guys.
Healing Factor: Has a minor one due to the Red Room's enhancements.
Seen It All: She comments that her time as an ex-KGB and SHIELD agent have resulted in her seeing so much insane crap that nothing surprises her anymore. Not even the existence of gods, monsters, aliens, minotaurs, etc.

SHIELD

Nick Fury

Director Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury

The main head of SHIELD and the one responsible for setting up the Avengers Initiative.

Big Good: He's this on the grounds that he's the head of SHIELD and the one who set forth the Avengers Initiative in the first place.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Despite being the Big Good who helped set up the Avengers, hardly anyone likes him due to how shady he is. Pepper jokes that no one likes him. Not even himself.
Good is Not Nice: He wants to protect mankind, but he's a rather shady bastard about it and will hide vital information from even his own subordinates if he's certain it will maintain the peace, such as hiding the fact that SHIELD collected the Kryptonite dagger from the wreckage of Kara's crash and that Doom stole it from them.
Jerkass: He's not exactly the nicest person to get along with and tends to go behind everyone's back. Tony even calls him jackass.
Older Than They Look: He looks like he's in his late 50s/early 60s, but is actually in his 80s, due to his aging rate being slowed down by exposure to some left over artifact of the Red Skull's.

Maria Hill

Agent Maria Hill

One of SHIELD's highest ranked agents who's the Number Two to Nick Fury.

Brutal Honesty: She does not hold back when she tells Kara that her recklessness trying to save people during the Battle of New York could have lethally injured innocent civilians.
Jerkass Has a Point: She was not nice when letting Kara have it, but she's ultimately correct in that Kara is too unfocused and a Destructive Savior in need of training to control her powers, as well as how her actions did cause lethal collateral damage.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's blunt when it comes to her opinions, but she softens up after expressing them and calmly recommends solutions.

Phil Coulson

Agent Phillip "Phil" Coulson

Nick Fury's right-hand-man. He was thought to have been killed at Loki's hands before the Battle of New York, but he's alive and kicking, though his survival is kept secret.

Back from the Dead: He was said to have died at Loki's hands, but he's back and kicking in Changing of the Guard.
Everyone Has Standards: He doesn't like the idea of recruiting teenage heroes. He makes it clear that if he were allowed to speak to the Avengers he'd have words with them about bringing in Spider-Man, and tells Hill that he doesn't want to bring in Ben's group after discovering them.
Nice Guy: Kara comments that he was incredibly patient and understanding when helping her with her language implants.
Token Good Teammate: Even Clint and Natasha refer to him as one of the few SHIELD agents who's completely good, heroic, and righteous, while the rest are anti heros at the best of times.

Alex Danvers

Agent Alexandra "Alex" Danvers

A SHIELD agent originally assigned to Tony Stark's protection detail and Kara's adoptive older sister.

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: While it's never shown, this version of Alex went through some gayngst growing up due to bullying. This never happened canonically because she discovered her sexuality well into her adulthood rather than youth.
Big Sister Instinct: Her protectiveness of Kara makes her very hesitant to allow her to join the Avengers at first.
Green-Eyed Monster: She was initially very jealous of Kara and all the attention their parents gave her. She grew out of this as they got older and became a Cool Big Sis.

SWORD

Abigail Brand

The director of SWORD.

Adaptation Personality Change: She's more laid-back and openly polite than her more hardline version from the comics.
Ambiguously Gay: Gives Ben the impression that her past with Hala is more than platonic. The epilogue of Changing of the Guard drops the ambiguity and confirms that she and Hala used to be lovers.
Amicable Exes: She and Hala broke up a long time ago, but the two of them are still close friends.
Big Good: Serves as this for SWORD and the events of Changing of the Guard.
Classy Cane: Hers is actually a piece of Galvan technology which can upgrade any other technology it's connected to. Unfortunately, said other technology tends to break when she disconnects it.
Deadly Upgrade: Her cane can boost technology like Upgrade, sure, but once she severs the connection the original technology tends to break pretty fast.
Older Than They Look: Like Fury, she's significantly older than she looks, due to being exposed to the same artifact he was.

New York

Spider-Man

Peter Parker/Spider-Man

The friendly neighborhood wall crawling vigilante that protects New York.

Age Lift: He's older here compared to the MCU version, who was a child at the time of the Battle of New York.
The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest of the New York vigilantes, being fifteen while the rest are all adults at least in their mid-twenties, and if how Daredevil treats him is any indication, he's practically the younger brother of the group.
Covered with Scars: Kara notes that his body has many lacerations and closed wounds, which is made all the more unnerving due to the fact that he's still a fifteen year old.
Decomposite Character: While he was at the Stark Expo, this version of Peter wasn't the child with the Iron Man mask.
Super-Strength: While nowhere near what the strongest Avengers can pull off or even what Avengers like Iron Man are capable of, he is the strongest among vigilante heroes and is superior to any human in this category.
Teen Genius: At fifteen, he's already a scientifically gifted individual. He even helps Tony and Winn develop Freeze Ray technology among other inventions over the course of a week.

The Defenders

Daredevil

Mathew Michael "Matt" Murdock/Daredevil

The Devil of Hell's Kitchen.

Anti-Hero: He's a good man at heart who fights crime and protects the innocent, but the level of brutality he displays when beating criminals to a pulp puts more optimistic heroes off.
The Dreaded: His ruthless methods regarding how he deals with criminals make him this. Even organizations like Rising Tide and his fellow heroes are weary of him.
Everyone Has Standards: He can be more than a bit brutal when fighting criminals (especially on his worst days), but he has the sense to avoid crossing the line. One such example of this is when Punisher comes to town, with him and Peter leave to stop his usual path of destruction, showing both his refusal to enter He Who Fights Monsters territory and how he makes it a point to prevent others from doing so.
Handicapped Badass: He's blind, much to the shock of Kara, but his other enhanced senses and martial arts mastery make him a deadly foe to face.
Made of Iron: He shrugs off a shoulder bash from Supergirl. Granted, Supergirl was holding back, but since most normal humans would be knocked out cold from much less, it's still impressive. Kara even finds it amazing that he could easily rise up after being struck by the equivalent of getting hit by a moving car.

Masters of the Mystic Arts

Doctor Strange

Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange

The current Sorcerer Supreme following the death of the Ancient One.

Adaptational Job Change: In the MCU, it was revealed that Wong was actually made Sorcerer Supreme due to not having been erased by Thanos during Infinity War. Stephen becoming Doctor Strange much earlier here allows him to regain his title from the comics as Sorcerer Supreme of Earth.
The Archmage: His status as Sorcerer Supreme makes him perhaps the most powerful and respected magic user of the mythical world.
Big Good: As Sorcerer Supreme and the most powerful magic user of Earth, he's this for the mythical world as a whole.
Break the Haughty: A week into his duties as Sorcerer Supreme, he encountered Doctor Doom and tried to fight him, believing he could easily win. Doom's effortless victory literally beat the arrogance out of him. Strange even lampshades this.
Everyone Has Standards: While he's willing to allow it, he's rather apprehensive to the idea of kids having to deal with the dangers of the magical world since it basically makes them Child Soldiers. He's also shown to be against Nick Fury's idea to militarize mythical tools and artifacts.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be a bit of an arrogant troll to most, but he truly cares for the world and those who live in it, being more than willing to risk his life to save it, something that Steve respects him for.
Legacy Character: He's the newest bearer of the title of Sorcerer Supreme following the death of his predecessor, the Ancient One.
Locked Out of the Loop: Turns out Fury went to recruit Danny Fenton, knowing where he was already, and never told Strange, despite both of them planning to start the team of magic users.
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When Ellie questions if vampires are anything like in The Twilight Saga, his response makes it clear that he's never heard of the series.
Skilled, but Naive: Something he admits to being. He's an extremely talented and skilled wielder of the mythic arts, but he's very new to the world of magic. A major reason for why he wishes to set up a team of magical heroes is because he's certain that their experience with the mythical world will make up for his lack of it.
Supporting Leader: Nico eventually calls him out on how, despite nominally being the leader of the team he's organizing for magical defense, he tends to let them handle things by themselves. He justifies it by making clear that he has total faith in their abilities.
Took a Level in Kindness: Before he became Sorcerer Supreme, he used to be part of the social circles that pre-Iron Man Tony was part of, and by all accounts he was somehow an even bigger jerk than Stark. These days, he's at worst just egotistical, but kind and well-meaning.

The Ancient One

The Sorcerer Supreme before Strange, now deceased.

All-Powerful Bystander: Despite her power, she frequently wouldn't get directly involved in things unless the situation was very dire, and sometimes not even then. Strange is doing his best to be more proactive about things than her, hence why he sets up his team.
Broken Pedestal: While Strange still looks up to her, it's clear that learning of her All-Powerful Bystander tendencies has given him some grievances for his former mentor.

Doctor Strange's team

Nico di Angelo

The son of Hades, who is called upon by the Greek gods to help assemble a team to protect the mythical world.

Butt-Monkey: Ends up being this to Doctor Strange, who seems to enjoy messing with him, usually by teleporting him when he's not expecting it.
Casting a Shadow: He has power over shadows and darkness.
Half-Human Hybrid: He's a demigod, being the child of Hades, lord of the Underworld, and a mortal woman.
Your Soul Is Mine!: As the son of Hades, he has control over souls, as seen when he tore Technus' soul from his ectoplasmic form and sent it to the Underworld.

Dani Phantom

Danielle "Ellie"/Dani Phantom

Originally a clone of Danny created by Vlad. She became a part of his family and now protects Amity Park in his absence.

Always Second Best: She has a tendency to view herself as this compared to Danny. The fact that many ghosts rub her face in the fact that a consequence of her newfound stability is that her power growth has been apparently permanently stunted, and believe that they can beat her as a consequence, doesn't help.
Amazonian Beauty: Has a more notably feminine body-type than Danny, whose looks are more androgynous. She's also got more muscle, since she's been an active hero the past few years unlike her original (Nico even wonders if Danny would look more like the very large Jack if he had kept it up for longer).
Clone Angst: She still has some angst over the fact that she's a clone of Danny.
Clones Are People, Too: She may be a clone of Danny, but she's her own person, with Nico confirming that she's got her own soul. Case in point, while Danny is trans in this universe, Dani actually identifies as female.
Distaff Counterpart: She's basically a female counterpart to Danny Phantom.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: While she still looks up to Danny, viewing him as "great", she's a little ticked that the Amity Park citizens spend all their time celebrating a hero who's gone while treating the town's current heroes like crap.
Godzilla Threshold: As the heroes are on the verge of being overwhelmed by Doom's allies in the Labyrinth, she allows Thor and Strange to supercharge her so that she can tap into her Ghostly Wail to use against them, even though that risks destabilizing and melting her.
Locked Out of the Loop: Is unaware of the full details of what happened in Danny and Vlad's final battle.
Luminescent Blush: Hers is green when in ghost form due to the ectoplasm.
Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Minor, but after Danny finally tells her the whole story about what happened with her in the averted timeline, she gets some "temporal echoes" of what happened.
Stronger with Age: Averted. As a consequence of what Danny used to cure her instability, her power levels are stunted and static, unlike Danny and Vlad's, so she'll never be able to use her Elemental Powers, Ghostly Wail, or make more than a single duplicate. This ties into her habit of thinking of herself as Always Second Best compared to Danny.
Superpower Lottery: Bruce refers to it as such when she lists all her powers for the Avengers.
Super-Strength: According to her, she can lift around 10 tons, putting her on a similar level of strength to Spider-Man.
Taking You with Me: In an averted timeline, after being horrifically mutilated by the Guys in White, and realizing that Vlad, her "father", had been behind it, she managed to, figuring that she was was going to die anyway, find a way to use her own body to power a Ghostly Wail that killed him and destroyed the Guys in White base.
Weak, but Skilled: Her powers may be stunted compared to Danny's, but as Nico notes, she's still a formidable presence on the battlefield and has a strong grasp on the powers she does possess from years of experience.

Dipper Pines

Mason "Dipper" Pines

A young paranormal investigator whose family has deep connections to the supernatural elements of Gravity Falls, and who is later recruited to Strange's team of young heroes dealing with the supernatural.

Adaptational Badass: The Masters of the Mystic Arts gave him a Sling Ring after Weirdmageddon in case he needed to escape or contact them for help in a similar situation, and he's begun practicing with it by the time of the last chapter of She Stole My Heart (and most of my valuables). The idea that he'll start learning more Eldritch Magic is also subtly implied, and Vespa Major later clarifies that he's been sneaking into the Sanctum's library to study up.
Has a Type: As noted below, he has a thing for redheads.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Spent several weeks using his Sling Ring to sneak into the New York Sanctum's library before he was finally caught.
The Smart Guy: He's described by Nico as basically a bottomless pit of paranormal knowledge, and Strange recruits him to the team solely for that reason despite his lack of inherent supernatural abilities.
Smart People Wear Glasses: The final chapter of She Stole My Heart (and most of my valuables) reveals that he wears glasses of a similar style to Ford's now. Luz suspects that his all-night research settings messed up his vision.
The Team Normal: To date, he's the only member of Strange's team to not have any inherent superhuman abilities of his own.

Arcadia

Alien Force

Ben Tennyson

Benjamin Kirby "Ben" Tennyson

A young man from Arcadia, who is given a special watch by his grandfather, Max. With it, he seeks to become like the heroes he looks up to.

11th-Hour Superpower: In Chapter 15 of Changing of the Guard, the Azmuth A.I. unlocks the Master Control of the Omnitrix, though without unlocking any new aliens, to give Ben the best chance possible against Vilgax when Ben refuses to run. Word of God is that he's going to keep it too.
Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed and ultimately zig-zagged in Chapter 15 of Changing of the Guard where he's granted access to The Master Control. In the main series, access to it granted him all aliens on the Omnitrix, which totaled at well over a million. Here, while it grants him the ability to transform indefinitely and with a mere thought like the original series, it doesn't grant him access to any more aliens than the ones he already had. Counterbalancing this, Ben in the series had a bad tendency to lose the Master Control as he got it thanks to Status Quo Is God. Here, it's permanently activated, meaning Ben won't lose it.
Ascended Fanboy: He always looked up to superheroes thanks to his grandpa and the stories he told. Now he is a superhero.
Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Near the end of Changing of the Guard, this is why he renders Vilgax a Sealed Evil in a Can instead of killing him. He plans to release him and throw him at the Black Order if/when they invade Earth, since he hates Thanos with a passion and they'll likely need all the help that they can get.
Cleavage Window: When the Omnitrix turns him into a genetic copy of Kara, the form is based off of Power Girl, complete with the usual boob window.
Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Once he unlocks the Master Control he no longer needs to hit the dial on the Omnitrix, but still tends to do it out of habit, at least the first time in a while.
Gender Bender: While some of his alien forms are either nonbinary or outright genderless (Big Chill and Goop, respectively), he plays this trope fully straight when the Omnitrix samples Kara's DNA and turns him into Power Girl, and later gives him a female Akiridion based on Aja.
Genetic Memory: How he gets his Required Secondary Powers, the Omnitrix transformations apparently carry the base knowledge of his abilities/anatomy so that he doesn't have to worry about How Do I Shot Web? for basic functions.
Giver of Lame Names: When he tries to come up with a name for the Akiridion transformation based on Aja, he's stumped because Ben Prime didn't have that alien and he's been mainly going with what he did on a subconscious level. The one idea he comes up with, he doesn't like.
Hero-Worshipper: He greatly looks up to superheroes and always wanted to be one even before they became a thing. He also greatly looks up to his grandfather, a former veteran who was also a superhero (though he didn't learn about that until later in life).
Magic Is a Monster Magnet: Whenever the Omnitrix is activated, it lets out a signal that can be detected halfway across the galaxy. Ben putting it on thus starts drawing bounty hunters and Vilgax to Earth.
Morphic Resonance: His transformation into his Power Girl form still has Ben's hair and eye color.
One-Man Army: How much of this he is depends on the transformation he takes, but he pushes it up when Vilgax invades and he's granted the Master Control. As Heatblast, he eviscerates an entire army of drones and outright atomizes any that are too close to him.
Playing with Fire: His Pyronite form. In this state, he can naturally shoot fire from any part of his body and emits so much heat that no amount of water can put him out. Gwen has to use magic to give Julie Frost Giant biology just so she can make contact with him. He can even give off enough heat to atomize anything too close to him, with Gwen comparing it to a mini-solar flare.
Required Secondary Powers:
- His transformations derive memories from the original genetic donor. This is so he has full knowledge of his abilities/anatomy and doesn't need to relearn how to function normally whenever he transforms.
- Goop needs the gravity projector to move in Earthly gravity, so when it's damaged the Omnitrix can make another.
- His XLR8 form is naturally frictionless and doesn’t conduct electricity, which keeps the static its Super-Speed would otherwise build up from frying him.
Superior Successor: Is technically going to be this to Max since he's far more compatible with the Omnitrix than his grandfather ever was. By his final defeat, even Vilgax considers him to be Max's better for heading his warnings about Thanos and offering him a chance at revenge when the time comes.
Super-Reflexes: His XLR8 form is stated to be capable of reacting at speeds faster than light.
Super-Speed: His XLR8 form. In this state, he can move at speeds faster than thought and, thanks to his frictionless body, can reach potentially limitless speeds if he ran continuously.
Super-Strength: Plenty of his forms have this, but Four Arms takes the cake. Ben speculates that this form could theoretically give the Hulk a hard time, though he ultimately proves weaker than Vilgax. His Power Girl form proves strong enough to help Supergirl tow the Chimeran Hammer out of orbit, though it took immense effort to do so for both of them.
Time Stands Still: Galvan alterations to the Petrosapiens makes it so that, if Diamondhead encases something in its entirety, it's completely cut off from tachyons, rendering it utterly timeless until it's removed. This is used to make Vilgax a Sealed Evil in a Can.

Gwen Tennyson

Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson

Ben's cousin, who has inherited mystical abilities from their alien grandmother.

Astral Projection: She can make astral clones of herself to interact with the world around her or do basic tasks. She's apparently been doing this for a long time, as thanks to her controlling parents, she'd only be around Ben and Kevin half as much if she didn't do this.
Badass Bookworm: She's a powerful magic user with great knowledge in the arcane arts who spends most of her free time reading various tomes given to her by her grandfather.
Barbie Doll Anatomy: When in her Anodite form, which protects her modesty during the below-mentioned Clothing Damage. When given a charm to hide it from others, this causes her to accidentally flash Kevin and Claire, since said charm does nothing to give her clothes.
Barrier Warrior: She can form energy shields to protect herself from harm, be it from drones, bounty hunters, or extreme heat.
Clothing Damage: The fight with Vilgax destroys most of her clothes, though her modesty is preserved by the fact that her body is also damaged enough to mostly revert to her true Anodite form, which itself has Barbie Doll Anatomy.
Discard and Draw: When she gains her full Anodite form, she loses her human magical ability.
Energy Weapon: Her powers revolve around emitting and controlling Mana for various abilities, ranging from energy attacks to outright magic.
Inept Mage: While her Anodite powers work fine and she doesn't have much issue with the spells that she can cast, about half of the spells that she tries just flat out refuse to work no matter how perfectly she follows the directions. Anyone's best guess is that her Anodite side is interfering with the spells, but her human side still lets her so some human magic. Notably, when she fully reverts to her true Anodite form, she loses access to any human magic that she had.
Nigh-Invulnerable: Being an Anodite, she can survive anything short of an Infinity Stone, though that doesn't stop her from feeling pain.
Twice Shy: She likes Kevin, who also likes her, but Cannot Spit It Out.

Kevin Levin

Kevin Ethan Levin

Ben and Gwen's friend. He is an Enhanced who was taken under Max's wing, practically being adopted by him.

Adaptational Heroism: This Kevin was never a villain and was adopted into the Tennyson family at an early age.
Designer Babies: He was born by means of someone taking his mother's DNA and inserting genes from his Osmosian father, since they couldn't have children together naturally. This resulted in his powers being more expansive than a normal Osmosian's.
The Engineer: He's highly skilled with mechanical work, having been taught by Max. He also later learns enough about alien technology to build and break-down otherworldly tech as well.
Genius Bruiser: While not an outright scientist, he is a mechanical genius with a strong grasp on alien technology that, when combined with his absorbing abilities, can pack a serious wallop.
Twice Shy: He likes Gwen, who also likes him, but Cannot Spit It Out.

Julie Yamamoto

Ben's long-term girlfriend.

An Arm and a Leg: Her arm gets severed by Sixsix. She does get a StarForce artificial limb to replace it.
Arm Cannon: The prosthetic arm she gets from the Kree can transform into a blaster cannon.
Artificial Limbs: Gets a Kree-made prosthetic to replace her missing arm, focusing on combat ability and having a holographic disguise rather than going for realism. After it's damaged in the final fight against Sixsix, Ship fuses with it to repair it.
It's Personal: She holds a serious grudge against Sixsix. Since the bastard severed her arm, it's not very surprising.
Lady Swears-a-Lot: She tends to have a very vulgar tongue and is often the one most likely to slip cursing into casual conversation.
Puppy Love: She and Ben started crushing on each other when they were in 3rd Grade.
The Xenophile: She even wonders if the Omnitrix has a Xenomorph form. Ben even calls her this a couple times, like when she's ogling his Power Girl form and trying to convince him to get Thor to be scanned for a transformation as well.

Trollhunters

Shadowdancer

Clair Nunez/Shadowdancer

One of the human allies of Arcadia's troll population, a sorceress with powerful shadow magic.

Atrocious Alias: She isn't fond of the superhero name Toby gives her.
Casting a Shadow: Her primary specialization is shadow magic.
Heroic RRoD: By keeping a portal open long enough for the population of Arcadia to be evacuated to safety during Vilgax's attack, she overuses her magic and is heavily corrupted by it, leaving her feverish and near catatonic afterwards.

Warhammer

Toby Domzalski/Warhammer

Another of the trolls' human allies, who wields an enchanted warhammer.

Heroic Build: The last few years have been very kind to Toby, as he's described as having a barrel-like chest with thick and muscular arms and legs.
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": When he first met Thor, he couldn't stop geeking out, even enthusiastically getting into a weapons comparison with the thunder god.
Not Quite Flight: He's gained enough control of his hammer's gravity curse to use it in a similar way to Thor, albeit not as powerful or fast.

Akiridions

Aja Tarron

Princess Aja Tarron

The princess of the fallen House of Tarron.

What the Hell Is That Accent?: Even through Ben can understand her through the Omnitrix's translator effect, she has an accent that seems vaguely European to him.

Krel Tarron

Prince Krel Tarron

The prince of the fallen House of Tarron.

Cultural Posturing: Keeps acting casually dismissive of Earth's people and technology as primitive. Aja states that it's just him clinging to his own skill with technology as a means of coping with the events of the coup.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Tells Aja and Varvatos that the Alien Force isn't as human as they appear, causing a Let's You and Him Fight situation before they can clear things up.

Varvatos Vex

The bodyguard to the royal children of the fallen House of Tarron.

Blood Knight: As in canon, Varvatos is rather eager to spill the blood of his enemies. Krel even expresses concern when he's disappointed by Power Girl preventing the Mothership from crashing into the suburbs, since he figures that causing casualties would make a stronger first impression.

Amity Park

Danny Phantom

Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom

A half-ghost and the hero of Amity Park. He's been missing for six years.

Chronic Hero Syndrome: Notes that despite the issues that made him a Retired Badass, if he had been in New York during the Chitauri invasion, he probably would have been in the thick of it.
Future Me Scares Me: He's terrified of the possibility that he could become Dan one day, and his angst over having had to kill Vlad feeding into this is a big part of why he retired.
Refusal of the Call: Fury broke into his home after the Battle of New York and tried to recruit him to the Avengers, but he refused.
Retired Badass: According to Dani and Valerie, he retired after his last fight with Plasmius.
Seen It All: When Nico arrives and explains who he is, Danny's reaction to having the son of a Greek god show up on his doorstep is to tell Sam to let him in because his explanation is just ridiculous enough to be true.
These Hands Have Killed: Having to kill Vlad to save Dani traumatized him, and every time he got into a fight afterwards he kept getting flashbacks to what happened with Vlad, causing him to retire from heroics.
Uncertain Doom: There have been no reported sightings of him in Amity since his last fight with Plasmius (who is also AWOL) six years ago, and despite him supposedly being a ghost, the people of Amity apparently presume him dead. Ellie and Valerie eventually confirm that he's alive, but retired, living with Sam in New York City.

Red Huntress

Valerie Gray/Red Huntress

A young woman who hunts ghosts with the aid of a high-tech suit and other equipment.

Achilles' Heel: Since Technus made her armor, he's able to override her control of it. Tucker made a defense for it, but it lasted for less than a minute, and Valerie seems resigned that she'll never be able to keep him from messing with it entirely.

San Francisco

Hiro Hamada

A teen prodigy who becomes driven to track down a villain who stole his invention and hospitalized his brother.

Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Since Tadashi lives thanks to Tony, Hiro doesn't fall into a depression for weeks like in the movie, and learning about the arson by eavesdropping on Tony and Cass allows him to distract himself by searching for the thief.
Teen Genius: He's in his early teens and a brilliant inventor, creating microbots in his garage that are advanced enough to impress Tony Stark.

Paris

Ladybug

Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

One of the primary heroes of Paris, who is the wielder of the Ladybug Miraculous.

100% Heroism Rating: As Ladybug, she's a widely loved heroine across all of Paris. Even outside of costume, she's loved by all her teachers and classmates. As Chloe puts it, everyone loves her.
But Not Too Bi: She's openly bisexual, but she still primarily crushes on Adrien.
Demoted to Extra: More so her status as Ladybug than her civilian identity. Since Chloe is the focus and POV character of To Rule Alone, to Build Together, her hero identity is more in the background.

Cat Noir

Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir

One of the primary heroes of Paris and the only son of Gabriel Agreste. He is the wielder of the Cat Miraculous and fights as a hero named Cat Noir.

Dark Is Not Evil: He wears the color black and his powerset revolves around misfortune, but he's a genuinely decent guy and a good hero.
Protectorate: He's more than willing to lay down his life for Ladybug. He does so both because he cares about her and also because she's the only one with the power to undo any damage Hawkmoth does to Paris.
Smarter Than You Look: Adrien is typically treated as an oblivious rich dork. However, he actually knew about Chloe's sexuality before even she knew and he proves to be much more introspective than people give him credit for. It's just that he doesn't make a big deal out of things, which makes him come across to others as rather airheaded.
Villainous Lineage: Besides the fact that his father is (unknown to him) Hawk Moth, it's revealed in the second chapter of From His Vantage Upon the Moon that previous members of his family were collaborators with HYDRA.

Queen Bee

Chloé Bourgeois/Queen Bee

The daughter of the mayor of Paris and a former bully who's trying to make up for her past actions. She becomes the holder of the Bee Miraculous and a new heroine named Queen Bee.

Adaptational Heroism: Here she truly atoned for her past actions and remained Queen Bee while opposing Hawk Moth rather than lose her hero status out of ego-driven villainy and subsequently becoming one of Hawk Moth's minions.
Alien Blood: When stabbed, she finds that she has rainbow blood in her transformed state.
Armored Closet Gay: She's very uncomfortable with anyone knowing her true sexuality and goes to great lengths to hide it, even throwing homophobic insults towards Juleka and Rose both to hide it and out of jealousy with how they can show their true selves without shame unlike her.
The Atoner: Her near death experience has made her more aware of her toxic behavior, so she's now putting her best foot forward to make amends.
Classical Anti-Hero: She wants to do good, but she's held back by her immense doubts in her abilities and her self-loathing regarding her past attitude as a bully.
Drowning My Sorrows: The one time she ever let herself get drunk was in reaction to overhearing her father talking with a homophobic priest and seemingly agreeing with the latter's views. As this was right after Chloe realized she was gay, she grabbed a bottle of champagne and later downed as much of it as she could stand.
Easily Forgiven: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, characters like Marinette and Adrien are perfectly willing to make amends with her for her past actions, but on the other hand, adults like Marinette's mother and Sabrina's father are unwilling to do so because of how she hurt their children in the past.
Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: While heavily flirty with boys, especially Adrien, it's really all a ruse to hide her sexuality. Adrien and Marinette both see right through the act with ease, the former even realizing it before Chloe herself did.
Heroic BSoD: Has a borderline Freak Out when she learns Marinette and Adrien are Ladybug and Cat Noir, as she's temporarily convinced that they were just playing nice with her so that they could make her give up the Bee Miraculous. Fortunately they're able to convince her otherwise.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Is stabbed by Hawk Moth through the chest, and although she's healed by it it leaves a scar.
Jerkass Façade: Besides throwing out insults that she doesn't really mean to Rose and Juleka in order to hide her sexuality, she also mocks Rose over her actions towards a visiting princess (heavily implied to be Shuri) in order to deliberately Akumatize her as part of a plot to expose Hawk Moth.
Lady Swears-a-Lot: Without a doubt one of the most foul-mouthed characters in the entire series. Almost every sentence she has tends to have at least one curse, and she's dropped a staggering amount of f-bombs throughout To Rule Alone, to Build Together.
Scars Are Forever: A small x-shaped scar is left after Hawk Moth stabs her, and she suspects a similar scar will be present on her back.
Smoking Is Cool: Averted. She smokes in Chapter 20 of To Rule Alone, to Build Together, but it isn't treated as cool at all and is instead a sign of how badly she's taking learning Ladybug and Cat Noir's secret identities. It's even brought up that she smoked an entire pack over a weekend at age 10, but she only did that from the realization that her mother wasn't coming back and it caused her severe health issues.
Took a Level in Kindness: She's actively trying to do this, and while she still has her moments of jerkassery, she's become an overall much nicer person.

Boiling Isles

Eda Clawthorne

Edalyn "Eda" Clawthorne, the Owl Lady/Marilyn

The most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles, Luz's mentor, and Stan's ex-wife.

Amicable Exes: She and Stan are on good terms these days, but are perfectly happy with not being in a relationship anymore.
Incompatible Orientation: When asked why she didn't try to pursue a relationship with Ford like she did Stan, she says that she could tell that Ford wasn't interested in women that way.
Younger Than They Look: Played with. By human standards, she actually looks her age, both appearing and being in her late 50s. By witch standards, she's actually pretty young, since she's only supposed to look the way she does by the time she reaches 120. She states that it's due to her curse artificially accelerating her age.

Luz Noceda

An upbeat human girl and Eda's apprentice while on the Boiling Isles.

The Apprentice: She's Eda's protégé when it comes to learning magic.
Back from the Dead: She died and resurrected (briefly as a half-Titan) during the final fight against Belos. She makes it a point to leave that part out when talking with the Pines twins so as not to scare them (or think too much about how she died).

Cosmic

Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers

A human empowered by energies from the Space Stone, she has spent the last couple decades as a peacekeeper across the cosmos.

The Ageless: One side effect of her powers is that her aging is effectively halted. Word of God is that she ages about a minute for every year, so she's going to be around for a long time.
Last Episode, New Character: Mentioned several times across multiple stories, but first appears in person in the epilogue of Changing of the Guard.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Warns S.W.O.R.D. about the Tarron siblings' impending arrival on Earth, ignoring Nova Prime's orders to stay out of the entire situation, because it's the morally right thing to do.
Story-Breaker Power: Similar to the main MCU, she's one of the most powerful characters in the entire setting. As such, to prevent things from getting boring, she's often hampered by being busy with something else or galactic politics getting in the way. For example, despite having the power to wipe out General Morando's coup, she can't as a result of Akiridion-5 still being an allied world to the Nova Empire and their resources being necessary to combating the Black Order.

Paladins of Voltron

Allura

Princess Allura of Altea

The princess of the planet Altea and among the last of her people.

Big Good: She serves as the overall leader of the Voltron Coalition.
Even the Girls Want Her: Upon first meeting her, Adora and Catra are practically tongue tied at how beautiful she is.
Last of Her Kind: She's among the few Alteans left, with the only other known Altean being her advisor, Coran. What spurs the plot of Eternity in Promise is answering an Altean distress beacon in the hopes of finding more of her kind.
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Being an alien princess, she has no idea what Star Wars is or who Princess Leia is when Pidge brings the character up.
Yank the Dog's Chain: In Eternity In Promise, she finds Adora, whose people the First Ones are descended from surviving Alteans who escaped the Galra purges by using alchemy to suppress their distinctive Altean traits. However, this only leads her to find that Adora might be the Last of Her Kind herself, and has no idea if there are any other First Ones alive elsewhere in the Milky Way.

Pidge

Katie "Pidge" Holt

The primary tech genius for the Paladins of Voltron and the pilot of the Green Lion.

Adaptational Gender Identity: Word of God states that Pidge is genderfluid thanks to expanding their horizons during their travels, identifying as female during the events of Close Encounters of the Gem Kind.
I Will Find You: Like canon, her primary motivation is finding her missing brother and father after they were captured by the Galra.
Scars Are Forever: Since Altean biology means they don't scar, their healing technology doesn't account for this in humans, so she's left with some prominent scars on her side following the fight on the Gem colony.
The Smart Guy: Of the Paladins of Voltron, she's the most intelligent, having the most expertise in working alien technology as well as studying any new tech that she comes across.
The Xenophile: She shows a great fascination with the various alien species she encounters, asking questions to Moonstone regarding Gems and she delights in learning about other races.

Lance

The sharpshooter of the Paladins of Voltron and a general flirt when it comes to women, as well as the pilot of the Blue Lion.

Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: His flirty nature applies to all ladies except Pidge, who he gets more genuine Ship Tease with.
The Casanova: He tends to be very flirty with random alien girls whenever he sees them.
Entertainingly Wrong: When he saw some humans on Knowhere, he didn't think anything of it because he thought that they were all Xandarians.
Hidden Depths: Despite being a goofball flirt, his talk with Pidge at the bar on Knowhere implies that he has quite a bit of trauma from all the battles he's been a part of and that it'll be hard for him to go back to how things were before his time as a Paladin.

Ruby

A Ruby foot soldier who wound up poofed and kept in the Castle of Lions.

Defector from Decadence: Eventually fully defects from the Diamond Authority and allies with the Paladins.
Fantastic Racism: Being a Gem brought up by Homeworld's ideology, she has a distaste for Pebbles and Fusions. With Pebbles, she expresses anger at being compared to them by Tivan (with Pidge believing that it’s less racism and more just parroting the beliefs of her superiors), and she's downright terrified of Fusions such as Moonstone. She's able to start getting over it after she helps the Paladins and Moonstone out during the colony battle.
Hero-Worshipper: After she defects and joins the Paladins, she starts becoming something of a Rose Quartz fangirl.
Ms. Exposition: Tells Pidge a lot about how the Gem Empire works as they're travelling to Knowhere.

Knowhere

Moonstone

A renegade Fusion who serves as an associate of Tivan the Collector.

Adaptational Weapon Swap: KJD's original character featured her weapon as a Sinister Scythe. Here, her weapon is a pike.
The Ageless: Like all Gems, she doesn't age. In her case, she's looked the same for the past 12,000 years or so.
Defector from Decadence: Although she wasn't a Crystal Gem, she was inspired by their example, particularly Garnet's, to defect from the Diamond Authority.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: As a fusion, she has two sets of eyes. In her case, she has two where one would expect the average person to have them, but she also has two in the back of her head.
Ms. Exposition: Fills in the Paladins on a lot of details about the Gem Empire that Ruby didn't, among some other things.
The Needless: As a Gem, she doesn't need to eat, sleep, or even breath to stay alive. When she decides to fully join the Paladins of Voltron at the end of Close Encounters of the Gem Kind, she even jokes that they don't have to worry about another mouth to feed.
One-Woman Army: She can take on entire groups of Homeworld Gems and other aliens by herself.

"Rojo" (Spoilers)

Jane Shepard

The protagonist of the Mass Effect games, dragged into the Kryptonverse by the Cosmic Retcon Doom performed in Chapter 34 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk. Retaining her memories and existing in the present due to Kara interrupting the process, she's now trying to find her way in an alien cosmos...

Adaptational Heroism: Not for her, but her identity as Rojo. In Ben 10, Rojo was the name of a villain Ben faced, while here, Rojo is a heroic bounty hunter.
Composite Character: Shepard is combined with the character Rojo from the Ben 10 series.
Dimensional Traveler: Like Kara, she's aware that she's not in her own universe due to the process being interrupted before she could be properly integrated.
The Dreaded: In the two months since she became a bounty hunter, she's managed to gain quite a reputation that's left people wary of her. When a female Tetramand (part of a race of blood knights with the woman being stronger than their male counterparts) bumps into her at the Afterlife, she recognizes her and backs down.
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: An Inversion, she's still an incredibly skilled warrior and powerful biotic (Verdona even saying that she's the greatest warrior of all time in her home dimension), but even with her abilities some of the species and beings in the Kryptonverse, like Anodites, Saiyans, and Thanos, let alone the Celestials, eclipse her abilities to an insane degree.
Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: She retains her memories of living in her previous universe despite being out of place in Kryptonverse like Kara is. This is a result of Kara interrupting the process before it could finish.

Etheria

Adora

A First One living on Etheria, who is the wielder of the powerful mystical mantle of She-Ra, granting her an alternate form with several powerful abilities. As for as she knows, she is the last First One confirmed alive in the galaxy.

Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's both as blonde and as kindhearted as ever.
Power Tattoo: While the Failsafe is gone, it left a tattoo-like mark on her chest that lights up when she uses her She-Ra powers without transforming.

Catra

Adora's love and a former commander in the Horde, who has joined Adora in examining First Ones bases, both to spend time with her partner and get off of Etheria for a while.

Absurdly Sharp Claws: Justified, Catra's claws are artificial implants that are made of a vibranium alloy, and while it lacks the mystical properties of the Wakandan variety they're still capable of cutting through most metals without losing their edge and incredibly durable.
Reformed, but Rejected: Not everyone on Etheria is as accepting of her Heel–Face Turn as Adora and company.

Entrapta

A woman with an insatiable hunger for knowledge, particularly in regard to technology. When she first appears, she's helping Adora and Catra salvage tech from First Ones outposts.

Squee: She's practically salivating to get a better look at the Lions and the Castle of Lions.

Nova Corps

Max Tennyson

Ben and Gwen's grandfather, as well as Kevin's foster parent, and a former wielder of the Omitrix. He faked his death using the Battle of New York as a cover in order to head back into space and prepare for the loss of Earth's Insignificant Little Blue Planet status.

Cool Old Guy: He's an ex-member of the Nova Corps and the previous wielder of the Omnitrix whose grandkids look up to him greatly, far more so than their parents. He's also confirmed to be about 72 years old since he was born in 1940.
The Dreaded: Way back when he was the wielder of the Omnitrix. Bounty hunters stopped trying to kill him because they considered him too terrifying to face in battle.
The Ghost: The closest he comes to appearing in-story in Changing of the Guard is in the message he leaves Ben. He finally appears in-person in the epilogue.
Hero of Another Story: He defeated Vilgax, used the Omnitrix in several other adventures in space, fought off a group of Forever Knights that stumbled onto Arcadia's Trollmarket, and met Rose Quartz. There could probably be an entire series filled with just what this guy personally did.
Like Parent, Unlike Child: More than one character lampshades how it's amazing how a person of Max's moral character and heroic nature produced children who became such awful parents, or people in general, for that matter. Coulson actually refers to them as Max's "devil spawn" at one point.
The Mentor: Serves as this to Rook.
No Kill like Overkill: He set off a fusion warhead two feet from Vilgax's face during their duel, and it still didn't finish him off for good.
Partial Transformation: Even without the Omnitrix, he can still turn his arm into a Pyronite one.
Retired Badass: He was the previous wielder of the Omnitrix and leader of the Plumbers (his unit in the Nova Corps) before he settled down on Earth. The events of the Battle of New York spurred him out of retirement.

Rook Blonko

A young Revonnahgander who decides to be the first of his people to leave his homeworld and join the Nova Corps, becoming Max's partner.

The Apprentice: Is this to Max since he's working with and learning under him.
Last Episode, New Character: First appears in the last chapter of Changing of the Guard.

Verdona

Verdona Tennyson

A powerful Anodite and Max Tennyson's wife. Her affection for him and their extended family has led her to, contrary to the normal aloof nature of her kind, join the Plumbers and help fight against Thanos, the Black Order, and other threats to Earth and her loved ones. Despite her time spent with her husband and the Plumbers, she still has issues with things like "boundaries".

The Gadfly: Her meeting with Rojo shows that she enjoys getting a rise out of people, such as reading their minds and making snarky comments on what they're thinking.
The Ghost: Is only mentioned for a good deal of time. She finally appears in person during Just Another Day at the Office, joining Max and Rook in meeting "Rojo" at Afterlife.
Mind over Manners: Despite being one of the good guys, she has a bad habit of reading peoples' minds without permission, such as in her meeting with Rojo.

Xandar

Caulifla

A Hot-Blooded Saiyan that grew up her entire life on Xandar and enjoys going on adventures with her best friend Kale. Her trouble trying to process her romantic feelings for Kale takes a turn when exploring a Ravager ship wreckage causes them to fuse.

Can't Spit It Out: Had trouble trying to tell Kale about her feelings for her. Fusing together certainly doesn't help.
Heritage Disconnect: Grew up her entire life on Xandar, and has no interest in learning about Saiyan history.
Related in the Adaptation: She's the daughter of Bardock and Gine and the younger sister of Goku and Raditz. It's also mentioned that Turles is her uncle.

Kale

An orphan Saiyan on Xandar and Califa's best friend. The more levelheaded and calm of the pair, her life takes a turn when they explore a Ravager ship and fuse.

Abusive Parent: Her father Paragus experimented on her and her brother to turn them into empowered Super Saiyans.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The sweet and patient blue oni to Caulifa's red.
Related in the Adaptation: She's now the daughter of Paragus and Broly's younger sister.

Other Heroes

Fantastic Four

Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm

A quartet of former astronomers who were backed by Victor von Doom to study the Bifrost anomaly, only to be endowed with powers due to the cosmic rays, forcing them to perform criminal heists for Doom and their Centipede benefactors.

Anti-Villain: None of them want to commit crimes, but Centipede has them all under a leash. After the Avengers free most of them, they make a pretty easy Heel–Face Turn.
Little Sister Instinct: Gender-inverted. Johnny is the younger of the Storm siblings and he starts panicking when he learns that Sue's bomb went off.
True Companions: They're pretty much a family who looks out for each other come Hell or high-water. When Ben offered to take full responsibility for the group's criminal actions, Sue and Johnny refused to let him suffr alone.

Villains

Latveria

Doctor Doom (Spoilers)

Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom

The ruler of the nation of Latveria.

Actually a Doombot: As the Trope Namer, he predictably does this at the climax of the Labyrinth fight. Apparently he stole the tech from Howard Stark's Life Model Decoys, with his own upgrades to allow him to use magic through them.
Antagonist Abilities: He's got them in the bag. Power Armor and technology that's better than Iron Man's? Check. Super-Strength surpassing everyone except the strongest Avengers? Check. Magic that can subdue Kara and is practically on the same level as Doctor Strange? Check. Access to Kryptonite? Check.
Authority Grants Asskicking: He's the ruler of the nation of Latveria and he's so powerful that he can dish out a one-man Curb-Stomp Battle to all the Avengers at once.
Batman Gambit: It's heavily implied that he deliberately set up the Fantastic Four to be mutated by Bifröst exposure.
Big Bad: After he kicks the Avengers asses in Chapter 23 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk, he establishes himself as this for the story.
Cold Ham: His bombast is fairly subdued, in large part because he's based off his incarnation from The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Though later chapters do show that he can turn up the theatricalities if he feels like it.
Crazy-Prepared: He's speculated to have countermeasures prepared for pretty much any attack, be it magical or technological.
Darkness Von Gothick Name: His name is Victor von Doom. Kara even lampshades that with a name like that, he might as well change his name to "Evil McBadguy".
Dimensional Traveler: Chapter 27 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk reveals via Strange that he's not an MCU-native variant of Doom, but from another reality of the Multiverse. However, this is actually subverted in that he is from the original MCU and the current universe is a variation of the original universe, though he has travelled through the Multiverse in the past.
The Dreaded: He becomes this after he decimates the Avengers. Kara in particular is left heavily traumatized by their encounter.
Entitled Bastard: The man's got a serious belief that he deserves more than he actually does. When he reveals that he was the one who brought Kara from Earth-16 into the latest iteration of the MCU, he immediately starts acting like she owes him her servitude and threatens to send her back to die should she refuse his orders. Kara, naturally, makes it clear that she owes him nothing.
Everyone Has Standards: Was not a fan of the Sokovia Accords. Not because he disagreed with control and oversight of superheroes, but because such oversight should be in the hands of people who are actually strong enough to enforce it, which he felt national governments and militaries lacked.
Facial Horror: As in canon, he wears his mask because his face was maimed. In this series, it was by an explosion during the Battle of New York.
Greater-Scope Villain: Before Chapter 23 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk, he was this for the story. He mainly operated from the shadows as both a major player in the Centipede Organization and the one behind the Fantastic Four's transformation as well as their later crimes. Chapter 34 reveals that since he and his Reed are responsible for every non-Marvel aspect of the Kryptonverse existing, he's ultimately the reason that the Kryptonverse has Vilgax, the Galra, the Diamonds, and more.
Hero Killer: According to Doctor Strange, Doom has killed different versions of him across different realities.
Hypocrite: He calls Doctor Strange "charmingly self-important", Reed snarks that Doom has no room to talk in that regard given how legendary his ego is.
Inexplicably Awesome: His abilities far outstrip anything he should be theoretically capable of given his origin as someone from an alternate universe (though not really), and he can use wizard-style magic despite not having the right bloodline or supernatural blessings. Hecate herself, despite being the Greek Goddess of Magic, actually joins his cause just to understand how he does what he does.
It's All About Me: Befitting a man with such an immensely arrogant attitude, to say Doom is self-centered would be an understatement. He believes himself to be entitled to the loyalty of others if he does them any small favors, views everyone as his pawns, and his quest to create a timeline where Earth suffers few casualties from Thanos is due to the tragedies he suffered. Word of God even states that in Doom's eyes, he is the hero of the story, and he fully intends to force that story on everyone else.
Jerkass: Big time. No matter what the situation, no matter how courteous he tries to come across as, Doom is still an extremely arrogant, condescending prick who acts entitled to everything.
Knight of Cerebus: He's this for The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk, as the mere mentioning of his name leads to the Centipede investigation and takes the story to darker places. His later decimation of the Avengers also raises the threat level to its all time high as he leaves all of them beaten within an inch of their lives.
Lack of Empathy: Doctor Doom's actions have resulted in many worlds and countless innocents being wiped out as fodder to keep the Black Order from Earth. Doom does not care an inch about how many have died by his machinations.
Magitek: Is fully capable of combing magic with his technology, despite how they normally don't get along very well.
Man of Kryptonite: Even without his Kryptonite dagger, he's still this to Supergirl thanks to him being a master of magic, which her Kryptonian biology is incapable of defending against. As Doctor Strange points out, the spell he cast on her to disable her in his fight with the Avengers was an incredibly basic stun spell, and he knows far more powerful spells than that.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: The series repeatedly makes it a point that, no matter his pontificating that he's doing what's best for the universe by strengthening the heroes who guard it, he's nowhere near as well-intentioned as he makes himself out to be.
- Tony lampshades that if Doom really cared about making sure that the Earth has the best possible defenders, he'd be helping the Avengers, not beating them up and putting their heaviest hitter in the ICU, and that whatever his intentions are, and whatever priorities that he claims to have, they're overshadowed by him being a massive dick.
- Kara later notes that if he really wants to help Earth's defenders become better, he's going about it in a really convoluted and pointless way.
- This trope is further reinforced in Chapter 34 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk, as despite working with Reed to create the best possible timeline, it's clear to Kara that not only does he want said timeline to be on his terms, but he's more specifically looking for a perfect timeline that best benefits him, and he also seems to motivated at least partially by bitterness towards the original Avengers from the MCU for failing to stop Thanos before the Snap.
- Even his version of Reed admits in Chapter 9 of From His Vantage Upon the Moon that he and Doom have technically already achieved their goal, many iterations ago, but Doom's perpetually bruised ego (and to some degree his own), keeps them going, trying to make sure that Thanos has no chance whatsoever at winning.
- It's noted that he could get around Thanos's Plot Armor without the issues he suffered in previous universal iterations if he joined the Avengers beforehand, but he's too prideful to do so.
Outside-Context Problem: He's this on account of the fact that, as revealed through Doctor Strange, he isn't from this universe, and actually comes from an alternate reality (though he's actually from the MCU before he turned it into the Kryptonverse). Strange also notes the fact that Doom is able to use wizard-style magic without having attended a school for such or made a deal with any demons; when it's pointed out that he could have learned in his own universe, Strange counters that the fickle rules of magic mean that his abilities shouldn't still be that good if that were the case.
Smug Super: He shows himself as having a massive ego and belittles the Avengers in their battle. Considering he subjects all of them to a Curb-Stomp Battle and even Tony Stark considers him an intellectual rival, if not outright superior, that ego is well earned.
Super-Toughness: His armor allows him to take full-power hits from Supergirl, though it's made clear that they still cause him a lot of pain.
Villain Has a Point: An amoral bastard and sociopath? Yes, but he ain't wrong in saying that after Kara joined the team, the Avengers have come to rely on her too much as the team's heavy-hitter. His subsequent take down of all of them (Kara included) drills that lesson into their skulls.
Villain Respect:
- Is genuinely impressed by Supergirl when she rejects the Black Mercy.
- When showing Kara her home universe of Earth-16 as well as her cousin, Superman, he's noted by Kara to speak of him with a good deal of respect.
Wake-Up Call Boss: Proves to the Avengers that they've become a bit too reliant on Supergirl's strength after she joined the team, and his fight with Kara shows her how Unskilled, but Strong she is.
Walking Spoiler: Really, the fact that he's responsible for Kara being in the current universe makes him this. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Doctor Doom's Accomplice (Spoiler)

Reed Richards of Earth-199999

The version of Reed Richards from the original version of the universe, and Doctor Doom's primary partner in creating a perfect timeline.

Adaptational Villainy: Of the Fallen Hero variety, as this Reed has ultimately lost his heroic attributes over time due to witnessing everything he held dear die over and over.
Affably Evil: While he's definitely not a moral person and willing to doom entire worlds, he's still very polite in his interactions with Kara.
Alternate Self: A completely different individual than the Reed Richards native to the Kryptonverse.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Even after confessing that his and Doom's actions have led to many worlds being destroyed either directly or indirectly, he's still baffled that Kara refuses to side with them.
Even Evil Has Standards: While he still goes through with his actions, it's shown that he has his compunctions on what he's doing and hates Doom's self-righteous nature as much as anyone else. Word of God even confirms that Doom has committed far more vile atrocities in their experiments without Reed knowing because the former hero would be completely against them and fight to get Doom to stop.
Fallen Hero: Everything he's gone through has made him fall to the same depths as Doom, albeit A Lighter Shade of Black who still has some empathy.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Compared to his partner, Doom. While Reed is little better, he at least has the decency to feel bad about what he's done while Doom doesn't care at all.
My Greatest Failure: In the original MCU, he and the other Fantastic Four members preferred to stay out of the big hero fights that the Avengers got into, limiting themselves to doing things like rebuilding Sokovia, while heroes like the Avengers fought and bled.
Necessarily Evil: Reed doesn't really enjoy doing things like creating entire worlds that solely exist to act as Cannon Fodder for the Black Order, so they'll be weaker when Thanos turns his attention to Earth, but views it as the only way to ensure Earth suffers no significant disruptions or casualties, voicing that Earth Is the Center of the Universe as a justification for it all.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: In a very similar sense to his partner.
- His actions are in large part motivated by a desire to create a perfect timeline where Thanos is defeated and Earth suffers no significant casualties. What this basically means is that he wants a timeline on his terms and perfect by his standards, which are so impossibly high that he's begging to fail. Kara is quick to see this and calls him out on his crap.
- In Chapter 9 of From His Vantage Upon the Moon, he admits to the fact that he and Doom have technically already achieved their goal several iterations ago, but he's so haunted by his past failures and so vengeful towards Thanos that he refuses to give up until they create a timeline where Thanos has zero chance of gaining any ground.
Walking Spoiler: It's pretty hard to bring him up without spoiling the fact that he and Doom are responsible for making the entire series as it is now.

Paris

Hawk Moth

Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth

The Holder of the Butterfly Miraculous, who is corrupting its powers to terrorize Paris with Akumas in order to claim the Cat and Ladybug as well.

Alien Blood: When wounded, his "blood" is rainbow-colored.
Arch-Enemy: To the heroic Miraculous Holders.
Big Bad: Of To Rule Alone, To Build Together.
The Empath: Besides his canonical abilities, his energy manipulation powers are affected by the ambient emotions of those around him, which leaves him either boosted or weakened depending on the circumstances.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a villain who seeks the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses for himself, he does love his wife and son, though in the latter's case, he's not very good at showing it.
Even Evil Has Standards: He's disgusted by HYDRA, and only works with them out of necessity to get the technology needed to keep his wife alive.
Loophole Abuse: Implies that he is unable to take Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculouses directly without dire consequences despite his far greater skills with his powers, hence his Akumas and plots.
Orcus on His Throne: Although he normally acts like this, he appears in person when Volpina shows up. This is apparently because he can't directly take the earrings and ring without dire consequences, forcing him to act via intermediaries.
Perception Filter: Besides the canonical Miraculous Glamour, he has apparently managed to keep anyone outside of Paris from taking note of how there's a power-granting supervillain running rampant in one of the most famous cities in the world, or at least keeps them from really considering it interesting. It even keeps posts to websites that would reach outside the city from working properly.
Playing with Fire: One of his expanded abilities here is pyrokinesis.

Volpina

Lila Rossi/Volpina

A mysterious figure who appears in Paris wielding the Fox Miraculous.

Adaptational Superpower Change: Canonically, her powers always came from Hawk Moth. Here, they come from the Fox Miraculous.
Age Lift: Significantly older than her canon self, who was the same age as the Parisian heroes, while this Volpina is obviously an adult even through the Miraculous Glamour.
It's All About Me: She refuses to get involved in the fight against Hawk Moth, caring only about regaining her Miraculous.
Jerkass Has a Point: Her point to the heroes about Cat Noire and Ladybug casually switching Miraculouses for fun is actually pretty valid.

San Francisco

Yokai

A mysterious figure villain in a trench coat and Kabuki mask who stole Hiro's microbots for evil purposes.

Skewed Priorities: It's lampshaded by Tony that he oddly seems more focused on hunting down and destroying Hiro, Baymax, and their friends rather than on dealing with Iron Man. As in, the world-famous superhero who's helped fend off two alien invasions in less than a year, and manages to do notable damage while both playing interference to Yokai's attempts to kill the future heroes and holding back due to the urban environment.

Cosmic

Vilgax's forces

Vilgax

A warlord and an old enemy of Max Tennyson, whom he fought back when he was the wielder of the Omnitrix.

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Vilgax's home planet in the main series is still around and he rules its people. Here, his race was wiped out by Thanos and he was forced to watch them all get killed.
Arch-Enemy:
- Was this to Max Tennyson back when he was a member of the Nova Corps and the Omnitrix bearer.
- He's also one to Thanos, as the primary reason why he seeks the Omnitrix is to gain the power needed to challenge the Mad Titan and kill him for good.
At Least I Admit It: Admits that he's delving into the same depths as Thanos himself to defeat him, unlike Thanos himself who clings to the illusion of moral superiority.
Conservation of Ninjutsu: He reveals that the dark magic that empowers him is fueled by The Power of Hate from the souls of his slain people wanting revenge, and if even one more member of his species was born it would drastically cut his power when Ben asks why he doesn't try and revive his people using the Omnitrix. That's why he left Myaxx in stasis when he discovered her, still alive, on the Galvan homeworld.
Cyborg: Heavily augmented himself with cybernetics for the sole purpose of becoming powerful enough to defeat Thanos.
Determinator: He just WILL. NOT. STOP. If it means that he could gain an edge over Thanos, he will continue to fight even as his body is literally torn apart.
The Dreaded: He's so widely feared that the Nova and Kree Empires refuse to go to war with him, and these guys are willing to buy out or destroy planets just to expand by a lightyear or two.
Egopolis: Inverted. His home planet was named Vilgaxia, but the planet wasn't named after him like Ben initially assumed. He took on the name as a reference to his homeworld.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- Doesn't open fire on lifeboats from ships he just destroyed.
- Thanos' genocidal actions disgust even him, and he seeks to gain the power needed to stop the Mad Titan once and for all. Subverted in that he's perfectly willing to use similar tactics if needed, though he at least admits that he's stooping to his enemy's level rather than clinging to the illusion of moral superiority like Thanos does.
- Even though his power is reliant on being the Last of His Kind, he didn't kill Myaxx when he found her in stasis on Galvan Prime, and is genuinely worried that his actions could make her a target if he took her out of it.
Eye Beams: Is capable of using these, which can hurt and push back the likes of Supergirl.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Despite his reasons for who he is being understandable, he's still a world conquering tyrant at the end of the day. Ben admits that while he understands where Vilgax is coming from, he ultimately doesn't find him sympathetic and he cannot nor will he condone the tyrant's actions, imprisoning him for his crimes.
From a Single Cell: His Healing Factor is powerful enough to restore him from scraps of tissue given enough time. That's how he managed to survive Max detonating a fusion warhead two feet from his face.
Good Thing You Can Heal: During his fights with Ben, Gwen, and the Avengers, his body gets brutalized and damn near destroyed in such ways that he would have been crippled outright if he didn't have such an insane healing factor.
Greater-Scope Villain: Serves as this for Changing of the Guard, as despite his looming presence over the plot, it's largely his minions and bounty hunters that Ben and co. spend most of their time fighting. In Chapter 14, he arrives on Earth to deal with things personally.
Healing Factor: At one point he's partially reduced to a skeleton, and it just slows him down a bit.
He Who Fights Monsters: It's pretty clear that Vilgax became this long ago. And he knows it, but is beyond caring as long as he can find a way to gain an edge over Thanos.
Hypocrisy Nod: He's well aware that his vile actions make him little better than Thanos, even admitting as much in how he's stooping to the same depths as the Mad Titan, but he's well past the point of caring.
The Juggernaut: As a fifteen-foot-tall cyborg warrior with a ridiculously effective Healing Factor, he's basically unstoppable.
Last of His Kind: It's confirmed that Vilgax is the last of his species, the rest having been devastated by Thanos. This actually part of why he's so powerful, he's used a curse to fuel himself with The Power of Hate from the souls of his people desiring revenge, and if a single other member of his species was alive he'd lose a significant chunk of his power. This is part of why he doesn't wish to use the Omnitrix to revive his species until he's defeated Thanos, and why he left Myaxx in stasis on Galvan Prime.
The Needs of the Many: Believes that the heroes refusing to sacrifice a few innocents for the greater good is a weakness that Thanos will exploit.
Not Quite Dead: It was hoped that Max had taken him down for good. No such luck, unfortunately.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Apparently once fought Thanos, which is no doubt impressive considering what the Mad Titan is capable of by himself. Apparently the fact that he even survived is noteworthy. While the fight itself is never shown, it does get discussed and brought back up a number of times.
The Power of Hate: Part of his power comes from a dark magic empowering him with the wrath of the souls of his dead people seeking vengeance.
Really 700 Years Old: Since the battle between him and Thanos took place hundreds of years ago, he's this.
Red Baron: One chapter summary on the AO3 version of Changing of the Guard refers to him as "The Conqueror of Ten Worlds" and "The Scourge of the Black Order".
Revenge: His primary motivation is exacting his revenge on Thanos for what the Mad Titan did to his homeworld long ago.
Sealed Evil in a Can: In the climax of Changing of the Guard, Ben uses Diamondhead's crystals to trap him in timeless suspension so they can point him at Thanos when he comes for Earth.
Underestimating Badassery: He dismisses Ben as a novice and sees the rest of Earth's heroes as a nuisance, only considering Thor to be worthwhile due to his familiarity with Asgardians. Suffice to say, he's proven thoroughly wrong.
Villain Has a Point: Despite everything that he's done, he's very well correct that Thanos is an even worse monster than he is, and that he needs to be stopped.
Virtue Is Weakness: Believes that the heroes' refusal to sacrifice a few innocents for the greater good is a weakness, one that Thanos will exploit.
Weak, but Skilled: According to Word of God, Vilgax is weaker than Thanos physically, but he is his better as a warrior, which would explain why he managed to survive their fight. It's also shown that he's not stronger than the likes of Supergirl, the Hulk, or Thor, but he's still skilled enough to fight all of them at once.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Zig-zagged. Everything he does is driven by his desire to defeat Thanos before he can enact his plans for the universe, but he still seeks to conquer the universe for himself when all is said and done.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's a maniacal tyrant who conquers worlds and slaughters all who get in his way, but it's hard to dismiss the circumstances that made him that way. Born an orphan and remade as the greatest champion and warrior of his homeworld, only to fail in his duty of protecting it from Thanos. He was then forced to watch as the Mad Titan razed his planet to the ground, leaving him as the last of his people, having nothing left but a burning desire for vengeance against Thanos. Even though Ben states that it excuses none of his actions, he still can't help but feel sorry for him, even promising him a shot at killing Thanos when the time comes.
Worthy Opponent: At first, he considers Thor to be the only Avenger worth worrying about. After his final defeat and Ben promising to let Vilgax get a chance at revenge, he even considers Ben this and acknowledges that he underestimated him and the rest of Earth's heroes.

The Diamond Authority

Yellow Diamond

One of the four matriarchs of Homeworld and the primary military power behind the Authority.

Always Someone Better: Word of God is that, unless he had an Infinity Stone on him at the time, she could kick Thanos' ass both in single combat and in military prowess.
Enemy Mine: Finds her forces in this with the Paladins of Voltron when they fought against an incursion of Galra.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Admits that the idea of creating Voltron to protect the universe rather than using the Quintessence that was used to make it for conquest baffles her.
Frontline General: She leads her troops from the front-lines. Pidge can't help but find this rather idiotic since it could result in a Decapitated Army scenario.
Greater-Scope Villain: Partially. She has no bearing on the overall plot of Close Encounters of the Gem Kind, but it's the corrupt ideology that she and the rest of the Authority enforces that drives the conflict caused by the Paladins' and Moonstone's encounters with Homeworld Gems.
Physical God: She's considered this by the caste system of Homeworld. When analyzing the various castes, Pidge labels her as a "horrifying cosmic goddess" alongside the rest of the main Diamonds. Word of God is that Thanos would be easily defeated by her in single combat (to say nothing of militarily) unless there were Infinity Stones involved.

Blue Diamond

One of the four matriarchs of Homeworld and the primary diplomatic power behind the Authority.

The Ghost: Mentioned by Moonstone in Close Encounters of the Gem Kind, but has yet to physically appear in the story.
Greater-Scope Villain: Partially for the events of Close Encounters of the Gem Kind. She has no physical presence in the story or any stake in the plot, but the corrupt ideology that she and the rest of the Authority enforces is what drives the conflicts the Paladins and Moonstone have with Homeworld Gems.
Mood-Swinger: According to Moonstone, she could go from civil and polite to casually shattering without remorse at the drop of a dime. And that was before Pink Diamond was shattered.
Physical God: Similar to Yellow, she's labeled by Pidge as a "horrifying cosmic goddess".

The Black Order

Thanos

The leader of the Black Order, whose goal is the decimation of life across all worlds.

Arch-Enemy: He's this to Vilgax, who wants revenge for what he did to Vilgaxia.
Ax-Crazy: Both Ben and Vilgax agree that he's completely and utterly out of his mind. He's completely deluded into thinking his genocidal plans to halve all life in the universe is saving it. That's before getting into the fact that he's willing to wipe out entire races if one of them so much as makes him bleed.
Berserk Button: Apparently actually injuring him is one. He wiped out Vilgax's entire species simply because Vilgax managed to spill a single drop of his blood.
The Dreaded: He's spoken of in hushed tones and terrified whispers. If Stuart's words are any indication, just managing to survive a fight with him is considered a feat in and of itself. After learning about him, the rest of the Avengers are left horrified by his actions and nervous at the prospect of facing him.
Equal-Opportunity Offender: Played for horror. When it comes to slaughtering people to fulfill his ideals for universal balance, he doesn't discriminate. To him, race, gender, religion, ideology, creed, or anything of the sort doesn't matter. If he wants to kill you to "balance the universe", he will kill you.
Eviler than Thou: As bad as Vilgax is, he speaks of Thanos as being far worse, and is driven to try and stop him.
The Ghost: He's only ever spoken about across multiple stories, but he has yet to make any appearances.
Greater-Scope Villain:
- He's responsible for the Battle of New York since he gave Loki the Chitauri army.
- He's also the one who wiped out Vilgax's people, setting him on the path of seeking the Omnitrix in order to stop Thanos at any cost, effectively making the Mad Titan this for the events of Changing of the Guard as well.
- Word of God states that he decimated the population of the Skrull homeworld, Skrullos, which forced them to migrate to survive and led to them ending up in Kree space. This means that he's also effectively responsible for the Kree/Skrull conflict as well.
- He's one to Doom, as everything that Doom has done, including repeatedly altering reality to turn the MCU into the Kryptonverse, is to shore up Earth so that it suffers no significant damage from the Black Order and prevent the Snap from ever happening.
Omnicidal Maniac: In contrast to other galactic warlords, he doesn't conquer worlds. Instead, he slaughters half their populations and leaves. He's also done this across hundreds of planets.
Plot Armor: According to author notes, Thanos has an In-Universe variant due to the "script" the Celestials enforce; only the Avengers can defeat him, and if someone manages anyhow, like Doom did with his temporal alterations, it will just cause chaos, like the Black Order razing Earth in revenge. Doom could make it work if he joined the Avengers before he did it, but he's too prideful to do so.

The Galactic Horde

Horde Prime

The former head of the Galactic Horde, and the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the Known Universe", though as Adora and Catra learn, the existence of the Galra kind of makes that claim fall flat. He was destroyed by Adora as She-Ra.

Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Underestimated the true size of the universe by several orders of magnitude, with his empire being just a speck in size compared to the Galra's, who he did not know about by all appearances.
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: As the Paladins explain, despite his grandiose claims, he was ultimately just one of many warlords who control parts of the universe that are otherwise unoccupied by the Galra or other major powers due to their overextension.
Posthumous Character: Has been dead for around a month by the time Eternity in Promise begins. Though some clones might be trying to bring him back...
Small Name, Big Ego: Called himself "Emperor of the Known Universe" because he controlled most of the portion of the universe that he himself knew about. However, this was only a very small region of the actual universe, which he only controlled because the bigger powers like the Galra were too busy elsewhere.

Morando's Forces

General Morando

A former general of Akiridion-5's military who initiated a coup to usurp the ruling Tarron family, forcing them to flee to Earth. He's threatened to turn the Akiridion military on the rest of the Nova Corps if they interfere in the "internal matter", while he sends bounty hunters after the royal refugees on Earth.

Villain Has a Point: Part of the reason that he gained enough influence to overthrow House Tarron is that he's personally witnessed the actions of the Black Order in Nova space, and views the elder Tarrons as complacent for not taking more decisive action. As Varvatos points out though, even with all of Akiridion-5's might they'd have no chance against the Black Order's forces, so he's either in denial or just using it as an excuse to grab power.

Amity Park

Plasmius

Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius

The nemesis of Danny Phantom, who originally vanished much like the hero he fought.

Asshole Victim: Given that he became a full ghost after dying, and what he did to Ellie, any sadness for his death is mostly on Danny's part for having had to kill him to save Ellie.
Back from the Dead: Danny reveals that he's been trying to find a way to regain a human body, though he apparently hasn't had any success so far.
Uncertain Doom: Like Danny, no one has seen him since the last large fight that the two had. Valerie and Dani later confirm that he's dead, and that he became a full ghost afterward. Danny reveals later that he's been trying to regain a human body.

Technus

A ghostly inventor with the ability to control technology, and a desire for world domination.

Asshole Victim: Him getting his soul separated from the ectoplasm making it up, and then sent to the Underworld by Nico is rather horrifying, but he's enough of a jerk that we don't really feel that sorry for him, and it's implied that his crimes as a ghost mean that he'll get the book thrown at him too. When Nico learns that he used his connection to Valerie's armor to sell out Danny, Valerie, and Ellie's plan to take Vlad down for good, leading to Dani getting experimented on by the Guys in White in an averted timeline, he quickly loses any lingering guilt he had about sending him to the Underworld.
Dragged Off to Hell: Nico manages to separate the ectoplasm composing his form from his human soul, and sends him to the underworld for judgement.
Technopath: Like in canon, he can control technology, and since he made Valerie's armor, he can get past even the measures Tucker made specifically against him relatively quickly.

Supernatural Foes

The Demi-God (Spoilers)

Hercules/Herakles

The son of Zeus and the mightiest demigod in Olympian history. Once the greatest hero of Greece, he now serves Doctor Doom to fulfill his vendetta against his former Pantheon.

Adaptational Villainy: In Marvel canon, Hercules is a superhero like Thor. Here, he's allied with Doctor Doom.
Blood Knight: He's absolutely thrilled to fight the Hulk.
Deal with the Devil: He's allied himself with Doctor Doom because he was promised revenge against the gods that have abused him in his life.
Death Seeker: This is implied to be the case for him when Hecate notes that his desire to destroy all the gods would include him as well.
The Dreaded: Just him showing up is enough to give Thor and Supergirl pause. Two of the most powerful beings in the world are hesitant to face him in battle.
Fallen Hero: He was once one of the world's greatest heroes, but centuries of mistreatment from his family have made him bitter and resentful.
Hazy-Feel Turn: After he's betrayed by Doom, he doesn't really join the side of good, as he's still highly disillusioned with heroism. Instead, he only aids Doctor Strange to get revenge on Doom for his treachery.
Rage Against the Heavens: His motive for helping Doom is the latter's promise to wipe out all the gods, which Hercules wants as revenge for his lifetime of torment.
Super-Strength: He's Hercules, so this goes without saying, as he can fight Thor and the Hulk simultaneously. The only people who can hope to match him in this category are a fully enraged Hulk, Supergirl when going all out, and Thor with his full power unlocked.
Unwitting Pawn: Doom fed him lies about destroying all the gods to get his aid, when Doom had no plans on following up in that.

The Goddess (Spoilers)

Hecate

The Greek goddess of magic and the queen of all witch-kind. She serves Doctor Doom out of curiosity.

Anti-Magic: When fighting Strange, she negates all offensive magic around her.
Anti-Villain: She works for Doctor Doom, but only out of curiosity regarding him and not outright malice towards anyone.
Because Destiny Says So: When Nico calls her out for continuing to side with the Titans in the Titan war and thus getting her children killed despite wanting a timeline none of them die in that war or the Giant War, she retorts to his comment about following Doom's script that they're all beholden to the whims of "greater gods" (the Celestials).
Have You Seen My God?: In A Cold Day in Erebus, we learn that she's been AWOL since at least the Chitauri invasion, dodging Zeus's calls about why the Mist is getting weaker. We finally see her in person in a later chapter of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk.
Mama Bear: Her main reason for working with Doom after learning of his motives is the hope that he'll create a timeline where none of her children die in the Titan and Giant wars.
Power Copying: Her new Anti-Magic trick is explicitly copied from the Giant Clytius.
Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: After she learned the truth of the Kryptonverse from Doom, she gained access to all her memories from previous iterations.

Allies and Civilians

New York

J. Jonah Jameson

John Jonah Jameson

The chief editor of the Daily Bugle, the former boss of Kara and the boss of Peter. He really hates superheroes.

Alliterative Name: Just like the comics, it's John Jonah Jameson.
Hated by All: Very few characters have anything nice to say about him. The likes of Kara and Tony have expressed their distaste for him and even the common civilians don't seem to like him either.
Ungrateful Bastard: Considering Kara and the Avengers helped save the city, not to mention that Kara worked with him for years and did a good job, you'd think he'd be a little nicer to them. Nope. He fires Kara and lambasts them all.

Cosmic

Knowhere

Tivan The Collector

Taneleer Tivan, the Collector

The owner of the Tivan Group, and an age old avid collector of fauna, relics, and other species throughout the universe.

Beware the Silly Ones: Eccentric? Certainly, but Pidge rightfully comes to the conclusion that he's not someone she'd want to have as an enemy.
Brilliant, but Lazy: He actually has rather vast cosmic power and could do most of his actual collecting by his lonesome if he wanted...but he just finds the idea of doing so to be really boring.
Collector of the Strange: As in canon. Pidge is rather weirded out by his eclectic assortment of artifacts, especially the ones from Earth.
Fantastic Slur: Given his apparent knowledge of Gem culture, as he's had Moonstone under his employ for centuries, he knew perfectly well just how insulting Ruby would find him calling her "Pebble", but did it anyway to get her goat.
Not So Omniscient After All: Gives Pidge the impression that he knows exactly where her brother is. Moonstone later reveals he could use his powers to find out, but finds it boring, so his information is instead from his spy network, and is less precise than he implied.
Really 700 Years Old: Actually several billion if his word is taken at face value.
Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Played with, in that Word of God states that he can remember what reality is like before the Cosmic Retcons enacted by Doom and Richards, but actively represses those memories for the same reason he doesn't use his omniscience — it'd be boring to be aware of those changes.

Kree Empire

Hala

The Kree in charge of the Empire's blockade on Earth. Apparently assigned there due to more sympathy towards non-Kree than the Supreme Intelligence would like.

Affectionate Nickname: Abigail used to call her Halls as a pet name from when they were together. She still does every now and then.
Alien Arts Are Appreciated: The Royal We reveals that she's apparently seen Star Wars, even making a joke about the Death Star.
Ambiguously Gay: Ben gets the impression that she and Abigail Brand have a more than platonic past. The epilogue of Changing of the Guard confirms that they were lovers.
Amicable Exes: Despite no longer being together, she and Abigail still get along well.
Eye Scream: She lost her left eye after attacking Vilgax's ship.
Heroic Sacrifice: Tries to ram Vilgax's ship in an attempt to stop him from reaching Earth. Subverted when it turns out that she's still alive.
Not Quite Dead: After seemingly being killed, she turned up alive but heavily injured in Vilgax's ship a few chapters after the fact.
Reassigned to Antarctica: Hala was apparently assigned to the Kree blockade on Earth because she was a bit too sympathetic to non-Kree for the Supreme Intelligence's liking.

Arcadia

Stuart

Stuart/Tiu'ars

An alien in hiding from the planet Durio and also Ben's boss.

Ace Pilot: Proves himself to be a pretty capable pilot when he takes the reigns of the Rustbucket during Vilgax's invasion.
Benevolent Boss: He's nothing but polite with his employees, as seen in his interactions with Ben.

Paris

Ms. Bustier

Caline Bustier

The homeroom teacher of Marinette, Adrien, and Chloe.

Et Tu, Brute?: Her Miraculous was stolen by her former lover, whose betrayal hit her hard.
The Mentor: She becomes one to Chloe in both trying to use her Miraculous and being a hero in general.
Ms. Exposition: As a former holder of the Butterfly Miraculous, she's often the one telling Chloe and the others information on the subject.
Secret-Keeper: She knows of Chloe's secret identity as Queen Bee and helps in maintaining it.

Juleka

Juleka Couffaine

A goth classmate of Marinette, Adrien, and Chloe. Later chapters reveal her to be a Squib with the ability to see through the Mist.

Adaptation Origin Connection: In this universe, she's descended from a long line of witches.
Muggle Born of Mages: Although the Couffaine family has been witches for generations, Juleka cannot use witch magic whatsoever. She can still see through the Mist, but that's her only inherent supernatural trait.
Nightmare Fetishist: Downplayed, but she states that she finds her girlfriend's Akuma form very attractive.
True Sight: Although Juleka cannot use witch magic, she has the rare inborn ability to see through the Mist like Rachel Elizabeth Dare and Sally Jackson. She even manages to briefly break through the Miraculous Glamour after a brush with death during the Stormy Weather fight, and once she saw Chloe transform into Queen Bee, the glamour just stopped working on her altogether.

Characters / There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton

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Heroes

The Avengers

Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark/Iron Man

Steve Rogers/Captain America

Thor Odinson

Robert Bruce Banner/The Hulk

Kara Danvers/Kara Zor-El/Supergirl

Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton/Hawkeye

Agent Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

SHIELD

Director Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury

Agent Maria Hill

Agent Phillip "Phil" Coulson

Agent Alexandra "Alex" Danvers

SWORD

Abigail Brand

New York

Peter Parker/Spider-Man

The Defenders

Mathew Michael "Matt" Murdock/Daredevil

Masters of the Mystic Arts

Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange

The Ancient One

Doctor Strange's team

Nico di Angelo

Danielle "Ellie"/Dani Phantom

Mason "Dipper" Pines

Arcadia

Alien Force

Benjamin Kirby "Ben" Tennyson

Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson

Kevin Ethan Levin

Julie Yamamoto

Trollhunters

Clair Nunez/Shadowdancer

Toby Domzalski/Warhammer

Akiridions

Princess Aja Tarron

Prince Krel Tarron

Varvatos Vex

Amity Park

Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom

Valerie Gray/Red Huntress

San Francisco

Hiro Hamada

Paris

Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug

Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir

Chloé Bourgeois/Queen Bee

Boiling Isles

Edalyn "Eda" Clawthorne, the Owl Lady/Marilyn

Luz Noceda

Cosmic

Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers

Paladins of Voltron

Princess Allura of Altea

Katie "Pidge" Holt

Lance

Ruby

Knowhere

Moonstone

Jane Shepard

Etheria

Adora

Catra

Entrapta

Nova Corps

Max Tennyson

Rook Blonko

Verdona Tennyson

Xandar

Caulifla

Kale

Other Heroes

Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm

Villains

Latveria

Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom