Kick-Ass (film)/Characters

Kick-Ass/Dave Lizewski

 * The Ace: He's not, but Justice Forever gladly accept his offer to join the team based on his reputation as one.
 * He is one of the more competent and likely the most experienced hero.
 * Adorkable
 * Anti-Hero: Type I throughout, though he's quite a bit more competent than most other examples.
 * Ascended Fanboy
 * Casual Kink: His superhero obsession is presented as such. Unusually for such a... weird fetish (but in line with the trope), it's shown to be a healthy outlet for his fantasies, since said fantasies involve community activism and an altruistic outlook on life and society.
 * Costumed Nonsuper Hero
 * Determinator: The comic zigzags on whether this is a product of stupidity and nihilism or Heroic Willpower, but it tends to be to his benefit.
 * Did Not Get the Girl:.
 * Memetic Badass: An in-universe example. Even though the clip clearly shows him being terrible at being a superhero, because he refuses to give up the fight, he becomes so popular that he inspires a comic based on himself as a legitimate superhero along the lines of Green Arrow or Batman.
 * The Messiah: Like many other superheroes in the movement, he enjoys doing good for the sake of doing good, both on the level of vigilantism and basic social work.
 * Mistaken for Gay
 * Nice Guy
 * Parental Abandonment: His mother died of aneurysm some time before the start of the story.
 * Super Zeroes: At least initially. He does toughen up however.
 * This Loser Is You
 * Took a Level In Badass: Goes from being absolutely pathetic in a fight in Volume 1, to able to single handedly take on several thugs and win in Volume 2.
 * Wide Eyed Idealist: And rather incredibly, refuses to become a Knight in Sour Armor in spite of all the harsh realities of life he is exposed to.
 * Weapon of Choice: Two large unfortunately dildo-like batons, which, if lost, he'll sometimes appropriate from the surrounding environment (like chair legs or plywood) and occasionally modify with nails to make them more like a mace.

Big Daddy/ Damon McCready

 * Captain Ersatz: Of Punisher, minus the skull..
 * Gun Nut
 * Informed Ability: He kills one person in the comic, and it's via Sniper Rifle.
 * Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?:.
 * Informed Ability: He kills one person in the comic, and it's via Sniper Rifle.
 * Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?:.
 * Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?:.

Hit-Girl/ Mindy McCready

 * Action Girl
 * Alliterative Name
 * Anti-Hero: Type IV
 * Anti-Villain
 * Badass Adorable
 * Badass Normal
 * Big Damn Heroes: Twice. Once
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Child Soldier
 * Costumed Nonsuper Heroine
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty: Is usually pretty hard on Kick-Ass in order to snap him out of whatever funk he's dealing with.
 * Enfant Terrible
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * He's Back: In Volume 2 #5,.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Kids Are Cruel
 * Knife Nut: She adores butterfly knives and swords, although she is a pretty good shot as well.
 * Little Miss Badass: Possibly the epitome of this trope.
 * Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: She enjoys slaughtering thugs with a little too much childish joy...
 * One Girl Army
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil
 * Refuge in Audacity
 * Sociopathic Hero
 * True Companions: With Kick-Ass, after her dad died. He's pretty much the only person she opens up to at all, and cares dearly for his well-being. He's also her go-to sidekick in the second volume.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * Vigilante Girl
 * Weak but Skilled: Relies mostly on weapons, because her small size limits mobility and strength.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair: It's a wig, but still.
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair: It's a wig, but still.

Red Mist//Chris Genovese

 * Ascended Fanboy:
 * Color Character
 * Late Arrival Spoiler: If you saw The Movie first, it comes as no surprise that
 * Took a Level In Badass:.
 * Late Arrival Spoiler: If you saw The Movie first, it comes as no surprise that
 * Took a Level In Badass:.
 * Late Arrival Spoiler: If you saw The Movie first, it comes as no surprise that
 * Took a Level In Badass:.
 * Late Arrival Spoiler: If you saw The Movie first, it comes as no surprise that
 * Took a Level In Badass:.
 * Took a Level In Badass:.
 * Took a Level In Badass:.
 * Took a Level In Badass:.

Johnny G

 * Name's the Same: Not the guy from Mementoƒ
 * Name's the Same: Not the guy from Mementoƒ

Marty Eisenberg/Battle Guy & Todd Haynes/Ass Kicker

 * Ascended Fanboy: In Volume 2
 * Blatant Lies: Marty tells Justice Forever a story involving his parents being killed & eaten in front of him to serve as his motivation for becoming a vigilante. Dave immediately sees through it & reveals that it's all a lie.
 * Follow the Leader: Marty becomes Battle Guy after being inspired by Kick-Ass, before finding out that his best friend Dave is Kick-Ass; they later bring Todd in on the action & he keeps coming up with names derivative of "Kick-Ass", which Dave & Mart call him out on.
 * Memetic Mutation: In-universe, Marty & Todd are the source of "Tunk", the Spear Counterpart to... that word Hit Girl infamously said.
 * Those Two Guys

Kick-Ass/Dave Lizewski
"Come on, be honest with yourself, at some point in our lives we all wanna be a superhero.

Played By: Aaron Johnson"


 * Adorkable
 * Anti-Hero: Type I
 * Ascended Fanboy
 * Costumed Nonsuper Hero
 * Determinator
 * Fake American: His actor's British.
 * Memetic Badass: An in-universe example. Even though the clip clearly shows him being terrible at being a superhero, because he refuses to give up the fight, he becomes so popular that he inspires a comic based on himself as a legitimate superhero along the lines of Green Arrow or Batman.
 * The Messiah: Dave finds it fucked-up that nobody cares enough to protect his fellow man, and became Kick-Ass to do something about it.
 * Mistaken for Gay: Although, it works out much better for Dave in the film than in the comic.
 * Nice Guy
 * Parental Abandonment: His mother died of an aneurysm some time before the start of the story.
 * Super Zeroes: Though he eventually mans up and saves the day.
 * This Loser Is You
 * Took a Level In Badass: He is much better in his final fight, where he uses a jetpack to block almost all  attacks, while in the first he just swings his batons around, hoping that thugs will run into them.
 * Wide Eyed Idealist: And rather incredibly, refuses to become a Knight in Sour Armor in spite of all the harsh realities of life he is exposed to.

Big Daddy/Damon McCready
"Tool up, honey bunny. It's time to get bad guys.

Played By: Nicolas Cage"


 * Anti-Hero: Type IV
 * Anti-Villain: Type II
 * Badass
 * Badass Cape
 * Badass Normal
 * Captain Ersatz: Of Batman
 * Costumed Nonsuper Hero
 * Crusading Widower
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Like the typical Batman routine. However...
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Sociopathic Hero
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil
 * Tragic Hero
 * Vigilante Man
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: A rare "good" example.
 * Widower Hero
 * Vigilante Man
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: A rare "good" example.
 * Widower Hero

Hit-Girl/Mindy McCready
"So, you wanna play?

Played By: Chloe Moretz"


 * Action Girl
 * Alliterative Name
 * Anti-Hero: Type IV
 * Anti-Villain: Type II
 * Badass Adorable
 * Badass Normal
 * Big Damn Heroes: Twice. Once
 * Blondes Are Evil
 * Child Soldier
 * Costumed Nonsuper Heroine
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Enfant Terrible
 * Fille Fatale: She's played by Chloe Moretz.
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Kids Are Cruel
 * Knife Nut: She adores butterfly knives and swords, although she is a pretty good shot as well.
 * Little Miss Badass: Possibly the epitome of this trope.
 * Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: She enjoys slaughtering thugs with a little too much childish joy...
 * One Girl Army
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil
 * Refuge in Audacity
 * Sociopathic Heroine.
 * Tyke Bomb
 * Vigilante Girl
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair: It's a wig, but still.
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair: It's a wig, but still.

Red Mist/Chris D'Amico
"As a great man once said... wait 'til they get a load of me.

Played By: Christopher Mintz-Plasse"


 * Adaptation Name Change
 * Ascended Fanboy
 * Anime Hair
 * Color Character
 * Create Your Own Villain
 * Even Evil Has Standards: After he learned that Dave is nothing in the grand scheme of things, Chris wanted him spared. Unfortunately for him, his father is adamant on having him killed to give a message to other would-be superheroes.
 * Evil Costume Switch: After being revealed as The Mole, Chris switches to a new costume..
 * Evil Counterpart: To Kick-Ass & Hit Girl.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare
 * Genre Savvy: Figures out that Kick-Ass is a comic geek, and uses that to gain his trust as Red Mist.
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: YMMV.
 * Mafia Prince
 * The Mole
 * Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness: Significantly less vile than his father in the first film, but.
 * Would Shoot A Girl
 * Would Shoot A Girl

Frank D'Amico
"I gotta send a public service message to the people out there that being a superhero is bad for your health.

Played By: Mark Strong"


 * Adaptation Expansion: His comic book equivalent, Johnny G, spends far less time in focus than Frank.
 * Adaptation Name Change
 * Affably Evil
 * Big Bad
 * Bald of Evil
 * Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: His clothing and possessions have are usually orange.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * The Don
 * Kingpin in His Gym: Keeps a dojo in his penthouse and is a capable martial artist.
 * Red Right Hand: The scar on his forehead, which looks like a cross between a spiral and parentheses.
 * Villainous Breakdown: Has one increasing steadily throughout the movie. He executes someone in broad daylight, goes batshit at his henchmen and starts doing cocaine (which was implied he kicked several years before).
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: His interaction with his son is a very weak Pet the Dog.
 * Would Hit a Girl / Would Hurt a Child: He has no qualms in giving a roundhouse kick to an eleven year old girl's face and then giving her a thorough vicious beat down. Though in his defense she is also an unstoppable killing machine who single handedly slaughtered his entire building full of mooks.
 * Would Hit a Girl / Would Hurt a Child: He has no qualms in giving a roundhouse kick to an eleven year old girl's face and then giving her a thorough vicious beat down. Though in his defense she is also an unstoppable killing machine who single handedly slaughtered his entire building full of mooks.

Big Joe
"Gentlemen...time to die.

Played By: Michael Rispoli"


 * Affably Evil: He seems like such a nice guy when not murdering people on behalf of his boss.
 * Cold-Blooded Torture: Well, it is torture. But it seems pretty passionate in its execution.
 * The Dragon: for Frank.

Katie Deauxma
"Dave? What the fuck are you doing? Why are you dressed as Kick-Ass?

Played By: Lyndsy Fonseca"


 * Fag Hag: She wishes
 * The Messiah: Has this in common with Dave
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * Shallow Love Interest: Played with. She's ultimately still an endearing character in spite of this.
 * Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Her relationship with Dave. And she dated Rasul because she thought he was a kind woobie before realizing he was far from it.
 * Where Da White Women At?: Dating Rasul

Marty Eisenberg & Todd Haynes
"Played By: Clark Duke & Evan Peters"


 * Adaptation Expansion: Significantly more screen time than the comic.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Marty.
 * Jail Bait Wait: After seeing Hit Girl save Kick-Ass & Big Daddy, Todd exclaims that he thinks he's in love with her, only for Marty to point out that she's around 11. He then declares he'll save himself for her.
 * Pair the Spares: Subverted, Marty winds up hooking up with Erica but Todd is still single at the end of the film.
 * Those Two Guys

Vic Gigante
"Played By: Xander Berkeley"


 * Corrupt Cop
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Even Evil Has Standards: He appears a little disturbed by the live online feed of Big Daddy and Kick-Ass being tortured. Not that he lifts a single finger to do anything or ever complains to Frank.
 * What Happened to The Mouse??

Marcus Williams
"You owe that girl a childhood.

Played By: Omari Hardwick"


 * Black Best Friend
 * Promotion to Parent
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Delivers one to Big Daddy.

Some Armenian Kid With A History Of Mental Issues

 * Decoy Protagonist: Very Very briefly
 * I Believe I Can Fly: Averted.
 * One-Scene Wonder