Whateley Universe/Characters

Team Kimba

 * Amazon Brigade
 * Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: They get chewed out regularly after their little adventures. Whateley Academy is not a 'superhero school', but a school for mutants to learn to control their powers, and as such mutants are not supposed to be fighting crime until they are eighteen (and legally deputized in their chosen city or region).
 * A Shared Suffering: the original six characters (plus Bladedancer, Carmilla, and Heyoka) are all transgendered in some way, some of them because of their powers, so they have a commonality.
 * Author Appeal: oh definitely. Most of the Canon authors have written other TG fiction.
 * Backstory: Every main character except Lancer has a novella or novel for this.
 * Badass Crew: high school freshmen who have already fought The Necromancer and his Children of the Night? And won? Very badass.
 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Breakfast Club
 * Busman's Holiday: They can't go anywhere without getting attacked or fighting villains. This doesn't seem to happen to anyone else.
 * Cool Loser: they live in Poe, which is supposedly the 'loony bin' dorm.
 * Extraordinarily Empowered Girl: they're superheroines, for Pete's sake!
 * Fail O'Suckyname: 'Team Kimba'. Never going to strike fear in the hearts of opponents. You can thank Jade for that one.
 * Five-Token Band
 * Gender Bender: Except Jade, who's finding ways to transition on her own.
 * Part-Time Hero
 * Plug N Play Friends
 * Superhero
 * Super-Hero Speciation
 * Super Team
 * True Companions
 * Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World
 * Weirdness Magnets: They got into more trouble in their first six weeks at Whateley than most students do all year. See also Busman's Holiday above.

Toni Chandler (Chaka)

 * Awesomeness By Analysis: One of her skills is the ability to see Ki flows, so she has learned several attacks by watching an expert use them.
 * Bi the Way
 * Bring It: this is the essence of Toni. She first did this when facing five superpowered ninjas when she was in a nightie.
 * By the Power of Grayskull: she got power gloves as a Christmas present rom a teammate, and they have an activation phrase.
 * Casual Danger Dialog: she and Phase are two of the worst about this.
 * Cat Smile: 'Chaka' does mean 'leopard'.
 * Cheryl Blossom: pretty much sums up her relationship with Thunderbird.
 * Combat Commentator: she can't help it. She's the only one who can see the Ki flows.
 * Deadpan Snarker: When she's not being a plain old wise-ass.
 * Embarrassing Middle Name: It's still 'Mark'.
 * Epic Flail: She's recently been learning how to use meteor hammers.
 * Establishing Character Moment: when she gets dressed at the start of her origin story.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Fun Personified
 * Genki Girl: although Generator is worse
 * Hard Work Hardly Works: definitely. It drives several other people nuts that she can learn Ki skills just by observing.
 * The Hero: She was at the forefront of the team's earliest adventures.
 * Improbable Aiming Skills
 * Improbable Weapon User and Improvised Weapon: Playing cards and sewing needles, which she uses as throwing weapons.
 * Indy Ploy: she lives by this trope.
 * Instant Expert
 * I Shall Taunt You: in fights, her taunting is somewhere between Sassy Black Woman and Spider-Man.
 * Jive Turkey: Often talks like this in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, or just to annoy Ayla.
 * Jumped At the Call: and how!
 * Kamehame Hadoken: yet another secret Ki technique she's stolen.
 * Kiai: she has a Kiai shout that literally projects her Ki like a weapon.
 * Ki Attacks
 * The Lancer: Her role nowadays.
 * Magnetic Hero
 * Martial Arts and Crafts
 * Mega Manning
 * Mundane Utility: she's constantly using her Ki powers to do things like dry off after a shower, or mop the floor faster.
 * Offscreen Moment of Awesome and Noodle Incident. Her fall combat final, against a brick, a giant, and a deviser/wizard, with a tornado and an earthquake thrown in for good measure.
 * Plucky Girl
 * Poke in the Third Eye: she can use her Ki powers to block psychic attacks.
 * Polyamory: She's dating Thunderbird (male) and also Riptide (female). Thunderbird doesn't know about Riptide yet. Riptide is lesbian and not happy about Thunderbird.
 * Power Fist: that's what the Christmas present is for.
 * Red Oni: To Chou's Blue, as well as to Nikki's -- except when Nikki loses her temper.
 * Salt and Pepper: Toni and her roommate Nikki
 * Sassy Black Girl: especially to mess with Ayla.
 * She Fu
 * Spider Sense: her Ki ability lets her know when someone is focusing on her
 * Spirited Competitor
 * Super Senses: Ki. It's always Ki with Chaka.
 * Take Our Word for It: Chaka's fall Combat Final
 * Transsexual: Until she manifested and got exactly what she wanted.
 * Twofer Token Minority: she's a black female bisexual formerly-male mutant with hyperactivity issues. Is there any other six-fer on that page?
 * Waif Fu
 * Wall Crawl: she also figured out how to use her Ki to stick to a wall.
 * Weapon of Choice: Her manrikigusari (a type of chain weapon). And her meteor hammer.
 * When All You Have Is a Hammer: when all you have are Ki powers, Ki solves everything.
 * Worf Had the Flu: over Christmas, Chaka had to help Bladedancer fight off ninjas. While recovering from broken hips and confined to a wheelchair.

Nikki Reilly (Fey)

 * Alien Blood: It's silver.
 * Arbitrary Skepticism: Fey is possessed with the spirit of an incredibly old Faerie, and yet she consistently pooh-poohs Phase's idea that some of the (far younger) Greek Gods have come back and are now at Whateley Academy.
 * Attempted Rape: by a superpowered ninja psychopath
 * Bi the Way
 * Blood Brothers:
 * Blood Magic: more than once, but most nastily in Christmas Elves.
 * Blue Oni: To Toni's Red. Well, usually.
 * Bob Haircut: Initially.
 * The Chosen One
 * Darkest Hour: the end of chapter 2 of Christmas Elves.
 * Disappeared Dad: her father and brother live in another state, because of her dad's important job with DARPA.
 * Distracted by the Sexy: Fey has a faerie glamour that at first she couldn't turn down or turn off. Even the gay guys in the dorm were gaping at her.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: Fey's boyfriend Stalwart, and his pursuit of her.
 * The Empath
 * Even the Girls Want Her: it's that darn glamour.
 * The Fair Folk
 * Fastball Special: done with Fey as the 'fastball' once, before she learned how to fly on her own.
 * Fate Worse Than Death: has nearly befallen her twice so far, once at the hands of Nex, and once when trapped by Hekate.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Functional Magic
 * Glamour
 * Healing Hands
 * Hello, Nurse!
 * Insistent Terminology: She's Sidhe, not an elf. She's also rather insistent about calling Malachim's Feather a scimitar, as opposed to just 'sword'.
 * The Knights Who Say Squee: Fey's Instant Fanclub, which utterly embarrasses her.
 * Lady of War: Fey may only be a teenager, but her spirit Aunghadhail, is one of the original nine Queens of the Sidhe.
 * Life Energy: she can pull Essence from almost anything natural.
 * Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: She's light, Sara is dark.
 * Magical Gesture
 * Magical Incantation
 * Magic Knight: Fey is currently training to move from Squishy Wizard up to this.
 * The Medic: She's the Healer of the team.
 * Menstrual Menace: her first period at Whateley Academy is the stuff of legend. There were thunderstorms. In the hallways.
 * Ms. Fanservice: especially after that photo shoot for that Sierra Club poster.
 * Mundane Utility: Fey has enough Essence that she can waste it on things like magically drying her hair.
 * My Nayme Is: Her full name is 'Nichole', not the more commonly-spelled 'Nicole'.
 * New Spells as the Plot Demands
 * Odd Friendship: With Razorback.
 * Our Elves Are Better
 * Our Fairies Are Different
 * Pardon My Klingon: she sometimes curses in languages that haven't been spoken in millennia.
 * Playing with Fire: She once seduced the element of fire and had it do her bidding. She doesn't do this again, since the process is pretty embarrassing and the one time was an extreme emergency.
 * Pointy Ears
 * Polyamory: Stalwart/Fey/Bugs. Stalwart doesn't know about Bugs, though.
 * Purple Eyes
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Shrinking Violet: When she first arrived at Whateley.
 * So Beautiful It's a Curse: it's literally a curse, since Word of God says her glamour is due to the ancient Faerie wards that still provide protection.
 * Squirrels in My Pants: the first magic that Nick (accidentally) does.
 * Squishy Wizard
 * Superpower Lottery: oh, yeah. She's one of the most powerful Wizard-type mutants on earth, and she has the spirit of an ancient Faerie Queen to teach her spells.
 * Weaksauce Weakness: To cold iron and, to a lesser degree, synthetic materials. Yes, she can be defeated by lingerie. Now that's a Kryptonite Factor.

Hank Declan (Lancer)

 * Absurdly Sharp Blade: He can create these by covering paper swords with his PK field.
 * Big Eater
 * Chivalrous Pervert: He went through this stage.
 * Dual-Wielding: With his paper shortswords.
 * Flat Character: He has no author, so he's not as developed as the others.
 * Flying Brick
 * Gray Eyes
 * Military Brat: And it shows. He's the most likely candidate for Team Kimba's leader and their strategist, and he's damn good at it.
 * Nice Guy
 * The One Guy: Him and Ayla, but Hank is the only one who actually looks male.
 * Straight Man

Jade Sinclair (Generator)

 * Abusive Parent: Her father.
 * Berserk Button: Don't threaten Tennyo. Jade will kill you.
 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Beware the Silly Ones
 * The Chick
 * Cloudcuckoolander: She has her moments.
 * Crazy Awesome: 'Radioactive Condor Girl!'
 * Deal with the Devil: she has a demon mark from the Star Stalker, and its implied this has something to do her new regeneration ability. Interestingly neither Jade nor Tennyo know about this, though Sara has figured it out and told Fey. The upshot is that she'll literally do anything for Tennyo, to the point that she's thought that if Tennyo killed her the thing she'd be most worried about is making sure Tennyo didn't feel guilty.
 * Flanderization: Her love of Hello Kitty.
 * Gadgeteer Genius: She's pretending to be one.
 * Grand Theft Me: a variant when Tansy used her avatar powers to steal one of the copies of Jade. Since she can cast herself into living things as well, it's likely that she could also do this to people.
 * Happy Fun Ball: Her Kitty Compact. Shroud is also somewhere between this and Swiss Army Weapon: she looks like a girl, who suddenly sprouts chains blades and liquid nitrogen.
 * Healing Factor:
 * Japanese Honorifics: She uses these sometimes, addressing Tennyo as 'Onee-Sama' for instance, or Chaka as 'Chaka-sempai'.
 * Kawaiiko
 * Killer Rabbit: She's turned Tennyo's toy cabbit into this.
 * Lethal Harmless Powers
 * Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Towards
 * Missing Mom
 * Nigh Invulnerable: as Shroud, or any of her other combat bodies. She's only vulnerable to Avatars and Psionic attacks.
 * Older Than They Look
 * Pronoun Trouble: That's what happens when you can have up to five of you at once, in various bodies.
 * Puppy Dog Eyes
 * The Runaway
 * Sociopathic Hero: She's displayed some worrying tendencies towards this. Overlaps with Creepy Child at times.
 * To clarify, most characters who have had to kill someone were upset about it to Heroic BSOD levels. Jade has killed dozens of people using a telekinetic lawnmower blade, by literally chewing through them in Killer Rabbit mode, and by raising an army of telekinetic zombies. And...she's fine with it. She also has a rather worrying fondness for weaponry and routinely carries dozens of varieties of high explosives.
 * Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Most of her odd behaviour is played for laughs.
 * Spanner in the Works: Most notably in "Christmas Elves".
 * Tagalong Kid: She's actually the same age as most of the others, but naturally comes across as one of these, especially since she lacks raw power and usually plays supporting roles in combat (not counting her 'other selves' like Shroud, since they pretend that they're completely separate beings).
 * Technical Pacifist: Also referred to as 'NRA pacifism': She alternates between wearing a pacifist armband and an ultraviolent armband. Randomly. Her point is that you should avoid violence whenever you can. But if you can't, deploy overwhelming force. She considers it Mama Bear training.
 * Transsexual
 * Transsexual

Billie Wilson (Tennyo)

 * All of the Other Reindeer: She's ostracised because people hear 'Section 33' and think 'dangerous, homicidal, wantonly-murdering psychopath'. Those who get to know her usually quite like her.
 * Anime Hair: It literally follows its own personal gravity. Her flight powers work on a similar principle.
 * Berserk Button: She's quite protective of Jade.
 * Big Eater: It's implied that this is to compensate for a lack of proper nutrition, since her real diet is supposed to be demons.
 * The Big Guy
 * Bizarre Alien Biology
 * Bloody Murder: Her blood has antimatter in it... But only sometimes.
 * Captain Ersatz: Invoked.
 * Combo-Platter Powers
 * Cool Big Sis: Jade sees her this way.
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * Extreme Omnivore: She's eaten ectoplasmic spider-rats, voodoo wolves, and the souls of demons. Averted when it comes to actual human food.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Eldritch Abomination / Humanoid Abomination The Stalker of the Stars/The Scourge/The Destroyer was one before it bonded with Billy to escape...something.
 * Flying Brick
 * Flying Firepower
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom / Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her irises sometimes go red when she's very angry. But actually, it's when they glow green that you really need to start worrying -- that's when she's channeling the Star Stalker.
 * God Mode Sue: Intended as a Deconstruction. Your Mileage May Vary on whether it works or not.
 * Healing Factor
 * Heroic BSOD: In "Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy".
 * Laser Blade
 * Nigh Invulnerability: Thanks to her incredible Healing Factor.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: Her higher end powers generate hard radiation as a side effect. And if the Star Stalker starts to come out, just existing causes her to start damaging reality.
 * Psychic Block Defense: Probably has something to do with the Star Stalker being made to fight insanity-inducing Eldritch Abominations.
 * Reality Warper: While most of her powers are ultimately based in this (for example, flying by ignoring gravity and manipulating her acceleration), they don't normally go into reality-rending territory unless she loses control of them.
 * Super Toughness
 * Tsundere
 * Unusual Ears
 * The Woobie: In 'Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy, Part 5/6', her memories of being the Star Stalker are unlocked.

Ayla Goodkind (Phase)

 * All of the Other Reindeer: A huge number of people ostracise him for being a Goodkind, or for being intersexed.
 * 'Ayla and the Mad Scientist' has even more people ostracise him after rumours spread that he personally kicked Chou off the team.
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Benevolent Boss
 * Blue Blood
 * Break the Haughty: His origin story.
 * Characterization Marches On: A variation. There's the Ayla before Diane Castle started writing for him and the Ayla after. Chronologically though, they exist simultaneously, due to the fact that the Diane Castle version is basically a Retcon via Alternate Character Interpretation.
 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Crazy Prepared: He tries, though it doesn't always work.
 * Crimefighting with Cash
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: As an appearance trope, it's more suited to pre-Diane Ayla, who was characterized by a 'punk' look.
 * Fallen Princess
 * First-Person Smartass
 * Food Porn: A big part of his stories.
 * Green Eyes: Though the 'spitfire' aspect of this trope mostly applies to pre-Diane Ayla.
 * Guile Hero
 * Heroic BSOD: In "Ayla and the Tests".
 * Honor Before Reason: While he's a really reasonable person, sometimes he goes off on tangents.
 * I Have No Son: His parents disown him after he manifests.
 * His siblings (minus Heather) still care about him, though.
 * Intangible Man
 * Jerkass Has a Point: Mutants are dangerous, do a lot of damage and need to be curtailed in certain cases. While the methods of curtailing need close examination and refinement, Ayla's not wrong when he says that the Knights of Purity are a needed force.
 * Laser-Guided Karma: Has incredibly harsh things to say about his sister's choice to transition. About five minutes later he takes off the jumpsuit he was imprisoned in and finds out he's on the same path.
 * Lethal Harmless Powers: Walking through objects? How boring. Being able to disintegrate matter by phasing back to solid within it? Not boring! Being able to fry electricity and knock people out by being partially solid? Definitely not boring! Being tough enough to slough off most attacks? Really not boring! Being able to trash the BI Ts of Exemplars and Shifters and turn them into monsters? Argh!
 * Never Live It Down: Fireball. Phase turned her into a monster by trashing her BIT (accidentally), and keeps thinking about it despite the fact that he never intended to do it and despite the number of Exemplars he did the same thing to, none of them got their BI Ts trashed.
 * He likes Brass Monkey (an alternative band) that the majority of other characters hate. They never stop bitching at him about it.
 * When he was a child, he donated millions of dollars to the MCO and supported Emil Hammond, believing that the doctor was a good guy who was being slandered by a lot of people with a grudge. Ayla found out the truth, and now he won't stop beating himself up for it- despite repeatedly being told by his friends that nobody would blame a kid for donating money to a cause that his parents told him was right.
 * The One Guy: Him and Hank, but Hank is the only one who actually looks male.
 * Pride Before a Fall
 * Pronoun Trouble: Other people are forever calling Ayla "she/her", even after being told he's not.
 * Properly Paranoid
 * Self-Deprecation: Ayla constantly puts himself down, especially in the field of fighting- the rest of Team Kimba are so good he feels he's at a major disadvantage. Never mind the fact that he beat Chaka, nearly beat Lancer, beat Tennyo, and has managed to either win, get even if he didn't win, or get out of every fight he's been in. He's also one of the most potentially destructive members of Team Kimba.
 * The Smart Guy
 * Straight Man
 * Teen Genius
 * Uncle Pennybags: He thinks nothing of spending money on his friends (when they allow it), or on anything he sees as a good cause. Justified, especially after 'Ayla and the Birthday Brawl', when he's the richest teenager on the planet minus some who are going to inherit fortunes.
 * Unreliable Narrator: Semi-intentionally. He's got a pretty good opinion of the Goodkinds and their works, but canon has proven that they definitely aren't what Phase thinks they are- and he knows it. Take everything he says about them with a grain of salt. It's justified because they are his family, and he's only spent about a year discovering the differences.
 * Utility Belt
 * The White Prince

Chou Lee (Bladedancer)

 * Absurdly Sharp Blade: Destiny's Wave.
 * Action Girlfriend: To Molly.
 * Blue Oni: To Toni's Red.
 * The Chosen One
 * Conveniently an Orphan
 * Green Eyes
 * Healing Hands
 * Heroic BSOD: In "To The Mountain".
 * Hot Chick with a Sword
 * Ki Attacks: She mostly uses her Ki for mobility: moving a great distance with a single stride, jumping, and sometimes Wall Crawling. She's starting to use it for healing, and once she used it to induce a heart attack.
 * It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
 * Limited Wardrobe: Most of her clothing consists of mandarin tops and yoga pants.
 * Missing Mom
 * Orphan's Ordeal
 * Sixth Ranger
 * Strong as They Need to Be: When the Tao decides to step in.
 * Talking Weapon: Destiny's Wave.
 * Upgrade Artifact: Destiny's Wave.
 * Upgrade Artifact: Destiny's Wave.

Bunny Cormick (Bugs)

 * Blue Eyes
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: She's a brilliant scientist and inventor, but all of her gadgets tend to be rabbit- or egg-themed.
 * Everythings Better With Bunnies
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hot Scientist
 * Meaningful Name

Elena Neva Natividad Amicella Lucita Obregon (Riptide/"Rip")

 * Blue Eyes
 * Making a Splash
 * Multicolored Hair: Black hair with a red streak down the center.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname
 * Overly Long Name

Vanessa Jackson (Vox)

 * Abusive Parents: Her dad beat up her mother and her repeatedly. She's got issues.
 * Compelling Voice
 * Purple Eyes

Lily Turner (Wallflower)

 * Barrier Warrior
 * Captain Ersatz: She has the same powers, family of superheroes and appearance as Violet Parr. Obviously she also shares all these things with The Invisible Woman as well.
 * Domino Mask
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Invisibility
 * Pettanko
 * Shiny Midnight Black

Molly Harrington (Gateway)

 * Covert Pervert
 * If It's You It's Okay: With Chou.
 * Meganekko
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Summon Magic
 * Summon Magic

Ambassador Rythax

 * Ambadassador
 * Familiar: To Gateway. Sort of.
 * Fun Size: Can turn into this.
 * Mega Neko: His apparent natural form when not shrunk for human convenience.
 * Occult Blue Eyes
 * Panthera Awesome
 * Sizeshifter
 * Talking Animal
 * Vertebrate with Extra Limbs

Kendall Forbes (Beltane/"Belle")

 * Grammar Nazi: Too many 'ands', dear.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname
 * The Prankster
 * Trickster

Marty Penn (Mega-Girl)

 * Flying Brick
 * The Team Wannabe: She keeps trying to get into the Empire City Guard, and they keep turning her down.
 * Younger Than They Look

"Jay-Jay" Jendleschmidt (Scrambler)

 * Alliterative Name
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Darkskinned Blonde
 * The Ditz
 * Motor Mouth
 * Super Speed

Elaine Fleischer (Delta Spike)

 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Hollywood Nerd: Dressed up like a Type 2 in an attempt to look more professional for the Weapons Fair. Phase lampshaded the whole concept and speculated that she'd draw in a larger crowd if she just wore her super-suit.
 * Hot Scientist
 * Never Live It Down: In-universe, every time she blows something up. Phase doesn't want to fund her because of this.
 * Stuff Blowing Up: Happens a lot with her. Her creations are known for going spectacularly wrong, earning her the nickname "Explosion Queen" around the Workshop.

Sara Waite (Carmilla) aka The Kellith

 * Alien Blood: A purplish-black 'ichor'.
 * Battle in the Center of the Mind: In "Insanity Prerequisite".
 * Bizarre Alien Biology
 * Combat Tentacles
 * Curtains Match the Window: After "The Blood Oath"
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Her original look.
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Even the Girls Want Her
 * Evil Redhead: Well, she's got the look, anyways. And there are plenty of people who do think she's evil.
 * Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: She looks like this naturally, without wearing makeup.
 * Expository Hairstyle Change
 * Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
 * Goth
 * Half Human Hybrids: Genetically, she's all demon, but her mother was human. Okay, her mother is actually a Deep One, but she was human when she gave birth to her.
 * Healing Factor
 * Hellish Pupils
 * Kryptonite Factor: Orichalcum.
 * Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: She's dark, Fey is light.
 * Lesbian Vampire: Technically not a vampire, or a lesbian for that matter, though she does seem to prefer girls. She's clearly meant to evoke this, though; her codename is an obvious reference to that Carmilla.
 * Lovecraftian Superpower
 * Naughty Tentacles
 * Older Than They Look
 * Photographic Memory: She's not the only one, but hers is especially notable.
 * Physical Goddess
 * Psychic Powers
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Sixth Ranger: Formerly, to Team Kimba
 * The Sleepless
 * The Snark Knight -> Ethical Slut / Good Bad Girl
 * Super Intelligence
 * Super Speed: Via time-slowing. At first it appeared to just be enhanced reflexes experienced through a Bullet Time-like effect, but it turned out she could move at 'normal' speed while everything else was slowed down.
 * Vampiric Draining: She drains the blood and life force from the creatures she eats, which reduces them to ashes.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting
 * Waking Up At the Morgue
 * Wall Crawl
 * Weakened by the Light: Until the events of "Insanity Prerequisite".

Chad Wilson / Merry Powell / Paige & Petra Donner (Circuit Breaker)

 * The Berserker: All young weres have this problem.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Catgirl
 * Church Militant: She was one person when she first became this. After the split, the job went to Petra.
 * Combo-Platter Powers
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * Healing Factor
 * Hermaphrodite
 * Inside a Computer System
 * Lemony Narrator
 * Literal Split Personality
 * Monochromatic Eyes: Before she became a Were Cat.
 * Our Werebeasts Are Different: Were Cat.
 * Playful Hacker
 * Shock and Awe
 * Split Personality
 * Technopath
 * Techno Wizard: Even before manifesting, to a degree.
 * Unreliable Narrator
 * Unusual Ears

Jamie Carson (Heyoka)

 * Ambiguous Gender: His/her default form.
 * Blessed with Suck
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Gender Blender Name
 * Hermaphrodite: His/her default form.
 * Involuntary Shapeshifting: His/her powers automatically force shapeshifting upon him/her.
 * Magical Native American
 * Pronoun Trouble

Erin Wynguard (Feral)

 * Animorphism
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Demoted to Extra: Made a few appearances before her author vanished, leaving the Canon Cabal uncertain what to do with her. She hasn't appeared since.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting
 * Wild Hair

Outcast Corner

 * Breakfast Club
 * Garage Band: They play in a room under Hawthorne, and people often stop by to listen to them.
 * True Companions

Joseph Turner (Jericho)

 * Blind Black Guy
 * Blind Musician: He plays bass guitar.
 * Brown Note: His wardrobe reaches this level in some stories.
 * Combat Medic
 * Deadpan Snarker: A notorious smart-ass.
 * Disability Superpower
 * Hollywood Pudgy
 * Impossibly Tacky Clothes: He intentionally dresses in the most hideous combination of clothes that he can find, to the point that it's a weapon. That poor, poor mook.
 * Milky White Eyes
 * Nerd Action Hero
 * Powered Armor: He designed it for medics like himself to wear on battlefields.

Jack Carlyle (Razorback)

 * The Berserker: He prefers not to enter rage-mode, though.
 * Berserk Button: An arguable example: high-pitched sonics drive him crazy and cause him to enter an Unstoppable Rage, whether he wants to or not.
 * Big Eater
 * Bully Hunter
 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Everything's Better with Dinosaurs
 * Healing Factor
 * Hidden Depths: He plays guitar, and he's really good at it. The Grove called him 'a murderer with the soul of a bard'.
 * Land Down Under: Where he's from.
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Odd Friendship: With Fey.
 * Super Speed

Sandra/Ryan Carter (Diamondback)

 * Berserk Button: Sharisha insulting Chaka and Fey and carelessly outing them in the process was enough to make her cross the room and slap her before either of the other two could pull themselves together enough to react.
 * The Empath
 * Fetish: She is one, much to her displeasure, as she's been approached by guys who were only interested in her for being a snake-woman.
 * Genius Bruiser
 * Shrinking Violet: When it comes to singing in public.
 * Snake People
 * Split Personality: Ryan and Sandra both cooperate, and claim that it's more like a "dual processor" than an actual case of this trope. However, they do have notably different mannerisms.
 * Teen Genius

Caitlin Bardue (Eldritch)

 * Badass Abnormal
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * The Insomniac / The Sleepless: She only needs to sleep a few hours a night.
 * Le Parkour
 * Military Brat: Her cover story.
 * Older Than They Look
 * Poke in the Third Eye: She's set up a lot of mental defenses against invading telepaths -- her brain is essentially a psychic minefield.
 * Tranquil Fury: When she does snap, she gets really focused, reverting back to her training.
 * Ultimate Blacksmith
 * Unstoppable Rage: Certain situations can trigger this, sending her into a Tranquil Fury.

The Bad Seeds
""Okay. We’re the kids of some of the biggest villains in the world. Wealth and power undreamt of by mortal man. And so far our ambitions include solving roommate problems, patent development, the possible destruction of the world, and covering the campus in concrete to turn it into a giant skate park.""

- Jadis, "The Bad Seeds"

Jadis Diabolik (She-Beast)

 * Badass Bookworm: Like Phase, she reads a lot.
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Genre Savvy
 * Hollywood Homely
 * Horned Hairdo
 * In the Blood: She's constantly harassed by people who believe that she's a supervillain because her father is, or who blame her for the death of a loved one.
 * Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Aversion, and she's aware of it.
 * Psychic Block Defense: Her father bound a devil to her soul, which influenced her PK shield. It's also proven to be an effective defense against psychics- one tried to read her and freaked out.
 * Pettanko
 * Rules Lawyer: As the daughter of Dr Diabolik, she knows damn well that the law will get her on anything wrong she does, so she learns all the laws so she knows her rights in any circumstance. It's helped her out a few times.
 * Team Mom
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: Except for the 'pretty' part.

Jobe Wilkins
"Ayla: You think that he’d try to cheat me and screw me over?
 * Affably Evil: Sometimes. He may be one of the least likeable people on campus, but he does try, in his own condescending way, to be polite and reasonable. Of course, since he's lacking in empathy, his good intentions are seldom well-received.

Jadis: No, I think that he would screw you over in complete honesty and sincerity."


 * Alternate Character Interpretation
 * Badass Bookworm: More so after his transformation, which boosted his physical attributes.
 * Baleful Polymorph: He's suffering from this himself due to the lab accident mentioned below, but aside from that, he's notorious for having done this to other students.
 * Code Name: More or less the only aversion: His official code name is simply "Jobe Wilkins" (he doesn't need one, nobody's going to go after his family).
 * Faux Affably Evil: On a couple of occasions, when he's lectured people who were being affected by Body Horror he caused himself.
 * Geek Physique: Despite having received martial arts training from a young age, his original body was not in the best of shape.
 * Heroic Comedic Sociopath
 * Hoist by His Own Petard: He created a drow serum to make the perfect girlfriend for himself. And then he accidentally injected himself with it. It worked perfectly.
 * Horny Scientist
 * Insufferable Genius
 * Jerkass
 * Literal Genie
 * Mad Doctor
 * Minored in Asskicking
 * Pet the Dog: He defended his old roommate, Oak, a few times.
 * Ayla also noted that he created an effective vaccine for dysentery that was estimated to save nearly a million lives a year and donated it to the Gates Foundation for free.
 * Poisoned Weapons
 * Royal Brat
 * Teen Genius
 * Unreliable Narrator: Due to his ego, his viewpoint can be highly slanted at times. One memorable scene in "The Second Book of Jobe" had him convinced that Jadis was madly in love with him, and interpreting everything she did or said accordingly.

Malachi "Mal" Diabolik (Techno-Devil)

 * Affably Evil: He is planning to join the villain business...
 * Electronic Eyes
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Horned Hairdo
 * Mad Scientist
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Malachai or Malachi? The former is used in earlier stories, while the latter is used in later stories and on the wiki.

Jean-Armand St. Michel-du Chantraine (Nephandus)

 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Cultured Badass: He likes to think that he's one of these.
 * Deal with the Devil: He's stated to be very good at making contracts for these.
 * Ermine Cape Effect: He's constantly wearing what Ayla refers to as a "Merchant-Ivory wardrobe."
 * Overly Long Name
 * Post-Modern Magik: He's been trying to combine magic and technology, with varying success.
 * Right-Hand Attack Dog: His cyber-golem.
 * Royal Brat: His mother is a countess, though her claim to the title is rather spotty at best.

Nathan Thurston (Thrasher)

 * Beware the Nice Ones: He fought fiercely when his Hooligan friends were attacked by the Lamplighter during a run.
 * Cool Board: Creates one with his powers.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: The "giant skate park" idea mentioned above? That was his.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: He faced down the Dragonslayers to protect his father. When he was eight.
 * Le Parkour
 * Surfer Dude: The skateboarding equivalent.

Katrina "Kate" Margya Joszinya Tvardowski (Nacht)

 * Casting a Shadow
 * Creepy Monotone
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: When she gets psychically whammed by Bliss, who induces happiness, her reaction is to scream 'I'm happy! The bitch must DIE!'
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Expy: Of Wednesday Addams (the movie version played by Christina Ricci).
 * Overly Long Name
 * The Snark Knight
 * The Stoic

Romeo LaClavar (Rosethorn)

 * Beware the Nice Ones
 * Bishonen: He claims that one of the reasons his girlfriends always break up with him is because "They don't like not being the pretty one in the relationship."
 * Five Stages of Grief: The other Bad Seeds have their own set of these for him getting over a breakup. They're more or less the same ones, but in a slightly different order.
 * Glamour
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Meaningful Name
 * Psychic Powers
 * Serial Romeo: More or less his defining characteristic.
 * Much to his own dismay. He'd rather find his One True Love.
 * Unstoppable Rage: What happens when he reaches the "Anger" stage.

Marian Kilgareth-Donnehammer (Winter)

 * Elemental Powers
 * Blow You Away
 * An Ice Person
 * The Team Wannabe: She wants to join the Capes, mostly just so she can say she did.

Victor Alexander Maria Stieglitz-Von Maas (Cheese)

 * Cheshire Cat Grin
 * Einstein Hair
 * Giggling Villain
 * Multiple Choice Past: When asked about the origins of his codename, he never tells the same story twice.
 * Overly Long Name

Lindsay Fellows (Dragonrider)

 * The Beast Master
 * The Ingenue
 * Moe
 * Token Good Teammate: While the Bad Seeds are not (for the most part) actually bad people, she's the only one that would never be mistaken as the villainous sort. This is partially due to her sweet nature, and partially to a protective charm her father placed on her that keeps people from making the mental connection between "girl who hangs out with the Bad Seeds" and "daughter of a supervillain".

Raymond Banks (Render)

 * Scary Black Man

Laurel Hua/Hua Chu Lan (Silver Serpent)

 * Lady of War
 * Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Substituting 'would-be global conqueror' for 'mad scientist'.

Belphoebe Blackadar-Wilkins

 * Really Was Born Yesterday: She's a cloned drow, so while she appears 16 and is treated as such by the administration, staff and students; chronologically she's 0.
 * Code Name: To date, the second aversion, together with her "mother" Jobe. On the other hand, this is probably because she's still working out who she is...
 * Gadgeteer Genius: Demonstrated in "Saks and Violence"

The Lit Chix

 * Author Avatars
 * Amateur Sleuths / Kid Detectives
 * Gaming Clan
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: The group's official name is the Literary Club. Nobody actually calls them that.
 * Parody Sues
 * Xtreme Kool Letterz: Chix = Chicks, in case you didn't get it.

Elaine "Doc" Nalley (Loophole)

 * Ascended Extra: Sort of. She gradually grew in importance, until she eventually got her own one-shot, and then a very lengthy solo story that's actually fairly important to the main plot (As opposed to the early Lit Chix stories, which could be skipped without the reader missing anything of importance).
 * Awesome By Analysis / Instant Expert: It's part of her gadgeteer power.
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Gadgeteer Genius: One of the most terrifying. She has a 100% success rate. Now imagine what she might build... thank God she isn't a supervillain.
 * The Gunslinger
 * Nerds Are Sexy
 * Powered Armor
 * Rules Lawyer: Hence the codename.
 * Southern-Fried Genius
 * Technological Pacifist
 * Wrench Wench

Joanne "Jo" Gunnarson (Murphy)

 * Animate Dead: She does this unintentionally.
 * Combo-Platter Powers
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Genki Girl: She's occasionally hyperactive.
 * Gray Eyes
 * Healing Factor
 * Multicolored Hair: Blonde with purple bangs. It's actually dyed.
 * Parody Sue: To a much greater degree than any of the other Chix.
 * Reality Warper
 * Sixth Ranger
 * Teleport Spam
 * Tomboy
 * Winds of Destiny Change

Rebecca Corbin (Foxfire)

 * Conspiracy Theorist: Is convinced that Team Kimba has a long thought-out plan for taking over campus.
 * Familiar: A young silver fox named Boots (short for Slyboots).
 * Ms. Exposition: In "The Clue of the Unseen Switch". This is apparently a thing of hers; in "The Big Idea", she commented on Reach's speech with: "Wow, and I thought that I loved exposition!"
 * Skunk Stripe

Babs Younkle (Compiler)

 * Does Not Know Her Own Strength
 * Nanomachines
 * Professor Guinea Pig
 * Punny Name
 * Too Fast to Stop

Dee Castle (Fractious)

 * Jewish and Nerdy
 * Neat Freak / Super OCD
 * Reality Warper

Don Sebastiano

 * Anything That Moves
 * Big Bad:
 * Brilliant but Lazy: He's quite capable when he puts his mind to it, but usually prefers to let other people handle the work.
 * Charm Person
 * Complete Monster: See Depraved Bisexual.
 * Depraved Bisexual: Not openly, but he
 * Handsome Lech
 * Latin Lover
 * Manipulative Bastard
 * Smug Snake
 * Telepathy

Hekate

 * Black Magic
 * Complete Monster: What she was going to do to Fey. She would have enjoyed every second of it.
 * Deal with the Devil
 * The Dragon
 * Evil Sorceress
 * Man Behind the Man: She actually does a lot of the Don's work. In fact,

Tansy Walcutt (Solange)

 * Alpha Bitch
 * Evil Counterpart: In some ways, she's what Ayla could have been.
 * Freudian Excuse: She was heavily bullied as a child. Now that she's older and powerful, it's payback time.
 * Manipulative Bitch: She was, especially in the year before the Kimbas arrived, but she's slipped a lot.
 * Rich Bitch

Wyatt Cody (Kodiak)

 * Affably Evil: During the Don's reign.
 * The Casanova: In his earlier years at the school.
 * Nice Guy: He's really not bad.

Bluejay

 * Enigmatic Minion
 * Teleportation: And he is fast.
 * Trickster

Hamper and Damper

 * Power Nullifier: Damper's powers. It doesn't seem to be universally effective, however.
 * Those Two Bad Guys

The Three Little Witches

 * Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Clover, Abra, and Palantir respectively.
 * Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
 * Cute Witches
 * Deliberately Cute Children: Though in Clover's case, it's not always an act.
 * Plucky Comic Relief

Clover

 * Canine Companion: Her dog, Buttons, who can Size Shifting into a Canis Major.
 * Cheerful Child
 * Hair of Gold
 * Nice Hat: A witch hat, as she'll proudly let you know.
 * Winds of Destiny Change

Palantir

 * Crystal Ball: Can summon one.
 * Insistent Terminology: She's annoyed by people shortening her codename to "Pally".
 * Messy Hair
 * Plucky Girl

Abracadabra

 * The Smart Guy: Especially compared to the other two. She's easily the most rational.

Peeper and Greasy

 * School Radio Station Newshounds
 * Those Two Guys

Peeper

 * Casanova Wannabe
 * Jerkass
 * X-Ray Vision
 * Power Incontinence - He lies about this to get out of trouble with enraged females (aside from those in authority, who presumably already know), but his X-ray vision is always on.

Greasy

 * The Chew Toy
 * Extreme Doormat
 * Gadgeteer Genius

Mokele'

 * Angry Black Man
 * Gender Bender: And not happy about it.

Keystone

 * Bald of Evil
 * Beard of Evil
 * Evil Genius
 * Four Eyes, Zero Soul
 * Geek Physique
 * Mad Doctor
 * Sinister Shades

Nightshade

 * Brainwashing: Did this to a girl named Rachel, turning her into her servant- though notably, not with psychic powers.
 * Sensual Slavs
 * Statuesque Stunner

Omega

 * Affably Evil: He and Phase seem to get along well.
 * Camp Gay: Likes lounging around in colorful island clothes while reading romantic sonnets.

Brainflash

 * Affably Evil
 * Boring but Practical: His proposal for getting one of Jericho's old devices - just buy it from him.
 * Gadgeteer Genius

Glitter

 * Emotion Eater

Paparazzi

 * Evil Is Sexy
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Multicolored Hair
 * Younger Than They Look

Jimmy Trauger (JT) aka "Jimmy T."

 * Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever: Pulled this off during the Halloween attack.
 * Big Eater
 * Bully Hunter
 * Combo-Platter Powers: He was created with this in mind; his author stated that she just picked out three completely unrelated powers.
 * First-Person Smartass
 * Green Eyed Red Head: His unshifted human form.
 * He Who Fights Monsters: During the Halloween fight, he killed a lot of attackers in the form of a giant monster. A lot of people were worried that he'd play the trope straight.
 * I See Dead People
 * Never Live It Down: In-universe. In his freshman year, some guy tried to bully him. He responded by turning into a giant blob and consuming him. After security forced him to spit the guy out, he said - jokingly - that he was 'tasty'. Now people think he's a cannibal.
 * Psychic Block Defense: He's a psychic null. Nothing gets in and nothing gets out.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting

Thuban

 * : His superpower. He keeps it top secret, simply pretending that his only power is, well, being a dragon.
 * The Chessmaster: A fairly minor example.
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Our Dragons Are Different: Well, he looks like one, anyway.

Kerry Ellison (Seraphim) aka "The Angel of Hell's Kitchen"

 * Ambiguous Gender: After manifesting, she initially leaned towards this.
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * The Empath
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Hair of Gold: Invoked, as it turns out.
 * Healing Hands
 * Power Gives You Wings
 * White Haired Pretty Person: Her original look

Anna Parsons (Aquerna)

 * Expy: She's Squirrel Girl without the Plot Armor
 * Heart Is an Awesome Power
 * Hollywood Homely
 * The Ingenue / Naive Everygirl
 * Motor Mouth
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Le Parkour
 * Sinister Scythe: Well, a kama, anyway.
 * Speaks Fluent Animal: Can talk to squirrels.
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: She frequently laments this.

Headmistress Elizabeth Carson (Lady Astarte)

 * Base Breaker: Over whether her actions so far are justified due to following Mrs. Potter's Omniscient Morality License... if that is indeed what she's doing.
 * Big Good
 * Flying Brick
 * I Did What I Had to Do
 * Magic Knight: Or a magic Brick, anyway.
 * Older Than They Look
 * Retired Badass
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?: Not forever, but she's aging at 1/3 the normal rate and has seen a lot of people die.

Chief Franklin Delarose

 * Badass Normal
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Seen It All

Amelia Hartford

 * Dean Bitterman
 * Hidden Heart of Gold: Reserved only for certain individuals.
 * Jerkass Facade: It's been hinted that she's putting on an act at least part of the time.
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat
 * Sadist Teacher: Well, school administrator, anyway. Carson briefly mentioned her having actual clinical sadism, in such a way that it was difficult to tell if she was joking.
 * Techno Wizard
 * When She Smiles: The effect was actually disturbing to a student who witnessed it, seeing as it was such a change from her usual demeanor.

Samantha Everheart (Hive)

 * Badass Abnormal
 * Karma Houdini:
 * Nanomachines
 * Older Than They Look
 * Technopath

Sensei Ito

 * Badass Grandpa
 * Badass Normal
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Doesn't Like Guns: Being a martial artist, he used to not use guns. Then one of his sparring partners beat him by pulling a gun on him in the training room and shooting him with a paint round. He got over his aversion to guns real fast, after that.
 * Miniature Senior Citizens
 * Old Master

Reverend Darren Englund

 * Badass Preacher
 * Base Breaker: Try asking the fanbase whether they think Englund should have expected . Half of them think that he couldn't have possibly seen it coming, and the other half think he should be crucified for.
 * Church Militant
 * He Who Fights Monsters
 * Inspector Javert: To Sara
 * Knight Templar
 * Morality Pet: Kerry. Nightbane and the rest of the Goobers also count, whatever you may think of them.
 * Spell My Name With A U: It's Englund, not England. It doesn't help that half of the actual canon authors can't get it straight either.
 * Van Helsing Hate Crimes: With Sara.

Erik Mahren

 * Badass Normal: Very much so.
 * Badass Teacher: You do not mess with his students. Even if you're
 * : A former one.
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Don't Call Me "Sir"!
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Le Parkour
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After.

Fubar

 * Cthulhumanoid: What his real body looks like.
 * Nice Guy
 * Oh God, Did He Just Hear That?: He just can't help it.
 * Projected Man: He communicates with people through a psychic projection.
 * Psychic Powers
 * The Smart Guy: One of the smartest in the world.
 * Stealth Hi Bye: Tends to do this with his projection.

The Children of the Night

 * Five-Bad Band
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * Obviously Evil

The Necromancer (Charles Upton Darrow)

 * Big Bad
 * Evil Sorcerer
 * Necromancer: Are you surprised?
 * Poisoned Weapons: His gauntlet darts.
 * Villain Decay: It's kind of hard to take the man seriously when he's lost to the same group of teenagers. Twice.
 * Not helping is the recent introduction of Mimeo, Mephisto, and to a lesser extent Lady Jettatura, all villains much more competent and interesting than him.
 * Xanatos Gambit: He claims that his losses in Boston were him pulling these, but it comes off as a weak attempt to keep himself from looking bad.

Lycanthros

 * Big Badass Wolf
 * The Dragon: The Necromancer treats him like this, at least.
 * Eyepatch of Power / Evil Eye: After Boston Brawl 1.
 * Kryptonite Factor: To silver and mithril.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting: Between his human and werewolf forms.
 * Werewolf

Lady Darke (Sandra K. Darden)

 * Casting a Shadow: Her favorite trick is to create psionic darkness that almost no one can see through.
 * High Collar of Doom
 * Psychic Powers: The source of her abilities

The Arch-Fiend (Wilbur Bunsen)

 * Big Red Devil
 * Breath Weapon
 * The Brute
 * The Man Behind the Curtain: His true form is a pudgy, middle-aged man.
 * Spikes of Villainy: In his demon form.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting: Between his human and demon forms.

Nightgaunt

 * Combat Pragmatist: His immediate reaction to being confronted by Lancer? Shoot him in the face.
 * The Faceless: He never takes off his helmet.
 * Legacy Character: The original Nightgaunt was a Badass Normal hero. The new one, not.
 * Power Gems: The source of his shadow-walking abilities.
 * Teleportation
 * The Voiceless

Vamp

 * Dark Chick
 * Evil Albino
 * Evil Is Sexy
 * Mouthy Kid
 * Perky Female Minion
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * The Vamp: In case you hadn't guessed.
 * Vampiric Draining
 * Vampiric Draining

The Chessmaster

 * Big Bad: During the Halloween attack.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Chess Motifs
 * Deceptive Disciple
 * Nightmare Fetishist: He's lovers with Deathlist. 'Nuff said.
 * Scry vs. Scry: Against Mrs. Potter

Deathlist

 * Complete Monster
 * Cyborg
 * The Dragon: To the Chessmaster.
 * Hero-Killer
 * Man of Wealth and Taste: Wore a black pinstripe suit during the Halloween attack.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * We Can Rebuild Him

Lady Jettatura

 * Evil Sorceress
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Wicked Cultured

Dr. Diabolik ( Daibliku Diabolik)

 * Anti-Villain / Affably Evil
 * Artificial Limbs: A bionic left arm.
 * Benevolent Boss
 * Electronic Eyes
 * Fan Nickname: "Doctor Dad." Jadis called him that first; it just caught on.
 * Genre Savvy
 * Herr Doktor: He deliberately plays this up.
 * Horned Hairdo
 * Lean and Mean
 * Mad Scientist
 * Older Than They Look: He's 75, but can pull off late forties.
 * The Smart Guy: Jadis also mentions that he has no patience with idiots.
 * Visionary Villain: He follows Timothy Leary's 'SMILE' concept (Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life Extension) and everything he does goes toward that aim.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Mimeo

 * All Your Powers Combined
 * Day in The Limelight: After his first appearance, he got his own vignette novella, "Mimeographic."
 * Powers as Programs: Regular power mimics can do this with mutant powers. He can do this with any powers.
 * Hero-Killer: Despite not actually killing anyone, he is infamous for taking on entire superhero teams and winning.
 * Technical Pacifist: He doesn't kill people. Doesn't have a problem with people he works for doing it, though.
 * Villain Sue: Potentially.
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting
 * Younger Than They Look/Older Than They Look: When he first manifested at age 12, he would often look older than he was. Later on in life, he would look younger, though without regeneration it was only superficial. At the end of "Mimeographic" his body is physically 18, but he shapeshifts to appear as if he were 28, and mentally, he's actually 55.

Mephisto The Mystic

 * Affably Evil
 * Arch Nemesis: Despite stating that it's a bad idea to become to obsessed with a single hero, he really hates the Dark Avenger.
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy
 * Kansas City Shuffle
 * Magnificent Bastard
 * Older Than They Look
 * Unreliable Narrator: We learn about him through a story that he's telling to an Intrepid Reporter. It's obvious from the beginning that he's biasing the narrative in his favor..
 * Xanatos Gambit: More or less every scheme he's ever pulled.

Skyhawk

 * The Ditz
 * Idiot Hero

The Lamplighter

 * The Blank: He wears a white, featureless, full-face mask.
 * Captain Ersatz: Of the Green Lantern, powers-wise.
 * Jerkass
 * Knight Templar: Overlaps with him being a moron.
 * Light Is Not Good
 * Light'Em Up

Champion

 * Big Good
 * Captain Ersatz: It's made blatantly obvious from the moment he's introduced that he's a Superman equivalent. "Razzle-Dazzle" makes it even more obvious, revealing that he started out only with super strength and the ability to jump really far, but gained powers like flight and heat vision as he absorbed more power from his enemies -- in other words, he followed the same progression the real Superman did.
 * Kryptonite Factor: The original Champion believed that his powers could be negated by a substance called "Tartareum." No such substance exists; his reaction to "Tartareum" (That is to say, any black chunk of rock that he thought was actually Tartareum) was purely psychosomatic. Unfortunately, this was only discovered after his death, and his first successor (who learned everything he 'knew' about his powers from the original) shared this weakness; later ones do not, although we still have to meet the modern Champion in an actual story.
 * Legacy Character: Champion's powers come from "The Champion Force," which can be passed on to someone else should he die. This has happened multiple times.
 * Weaksauce Weakness: See "Kryptonite Factor" above. Pretty much anyone who could convince the original Champion that a chunk of rock was tartareum could take advantage of his one weakness. He was finally killed with nothing more than a glass knife, because it was carved from black volcanic glass and both he and his nemesis were convinced that it was made of tartareum.

The Dark Avenger

 * Ancient Conspiracy: Is a member of one. Maybe.
 * Captain Ersatz: Mostly of Batman, but there are strong elements of The Punisher, The Green Hornet, and The Spirit as well.
 * Knight Templar: Maybe.