Excalibur (Comic Book)/Characters: Difference between revisions

Line 16:

* [[Heroic Resolve]]

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Wearing a Flag On Your Head]]

* [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head]]

'''Meggan Puceanu/Gloriana'''

* [[Arch Enemy]]: [[God of Evil|Dormammu]]

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Sweet as they come, but mess with her friends and you'll live to regret it. {{spoiler|As the rulers of Hell have found out.}}

* [[Character Development]]: She started out as a frightened young girl and gradually learned to take control of her powers and her life, [[Took a Level In Badass~~|took a level in badass~~]] and gradually became a strong, confident woman. And then they [[Dropped a Bridge On Him|killed her off]]. {{spoiler|And then she became a rebel leader in Hell, took ''another'' level in badass, and is now [[Back From the Dead]].}}

* [[Character Development]]: She started out as a frightened young girl and gradually learned to take control of her powers and her life, [[Took a Level In Badass]] and gradually became a strong, confident woman. And then they [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|killed her off]]. {{spoiler|And then she became a rebel leader in Hell, took ''another'' level in badass, and is now [[Back From the Dead]].}}

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]

* [[Empathic Shapeshifter]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

Line 75:

'''Pete Wisdom'''

* [[Alternate Company Equivalent]]: There's an [[Fan Wank|old fan theory]] that he was an attempt to make Marvel's equivalent to [[Hellblazer ~~(Comic Book)~~|John Constantine]].

* [[Alternate Company Equivalent]]: There's an [[Fan Wank|old fan theory]] that he was an attempt to make Marvel's equivalent to [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]].

* [[Author Avatar]]: Of [[Warren Ellis]] while he was writing him. Probably why no one else could quite write him the same afterward.

* [[The Atoner]]

Line 83:

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Frank Tieri [[Flanderization|flanderized]] him into a [[Kavorka Man]].

* [[Heartbroken Badass]]

* [[Hitman ~~With~~ a Heart]]: He used to be part of an amoral government-funded Black Ops organization, until he decided that they had crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]], and that he had to quit. His employers [[Contract On the Hitman|weren't exactly pleased with this]].

* [[Hitman with a Heart]]: He used to be part of an amoral government-funded Black Ops organization, until he decided that they had crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]], and that he had to quit. His employers [[Contract on the Hitman|weren't exactly pleased with this]].

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

Line 95:

* [[Not Wearing Tights]]: Everyone else can wear what they like, but Pete Wisdom sticks with his suit.

* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]

* [[Playing ~~With~~ Fire]]: His mutant power to to create knifelike spouts of flame from his fingertips.

* [[Playing with Fire]]: His mutant power to to create knifelike spouts of flame from his fingertips.

* [[Secret Public Identity]]

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: He's usually the one to do this.

Line 136:

* [[Humanity Ensues]]

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye|Johnny We Hardly Knew Ya]]

* [[Rewarded As a Traitor Deserves]] (from the Skrull perspective, at least).

* [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves]] (from the Skrull perspective, at least).

* [[Shape Shifter]]

* [[Shapeshifter Weapon]]

Line 143:

'''Colossus/Piotr Rasputin'''

See [[X-Men ~~(Franchise)~~/70s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

See [[X-Men/70s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

'''Dazzler/Alison Blaire'''

Line 151:

'''Juggernaut/Cain Marko'''

See [[X-Men ~~(Franchise)~~/Villains/Characters|X-Men]].

See [[X-Men/Villains/Characters|X-Men]].

'''Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner'''

See [[X-Men ~~(Franchise)~~/70s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

See [[X-Men/70s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

'''Nocturne/Josephine T.J. Wagner'''

Line 161:

'''Phoenix/Rachel Summers'''

See [[X-Men ~~(Franchise)~~/80s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

See [[X-Men/80s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

'''Psylocke/Elizabeth Braddock'''

See [[X-Men ~~(Franchise)~~/80s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

See [[X-Men/80s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

'''Sage/Tessa'''

See [[X-Men ~~(Franchise)~~/2000s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

See [[X-Men/2000s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

'''Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde'''

See [[X-Men ~~(Franchise)~~/80s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

See [[X-Men/80s Members/Characters|X-Men]].

'''Wolfsbane/Rahne Sinclair'''

Line 196:

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: From the Marvel UK line.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: How she coped with life-or-death situations.

* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him|Dropped A Bridge On Her]]

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|Dropped A Bridge On Her]]

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: Not her death itself, but the final two-parter leading up to it has her taking on [[Amusement Park of Doom|Murderworld]], and handling herself extraordinarily well even before Excalibur shows up.

* [[Kill and Replace]]: By her evil alternate universe counterpart, Sat-Yr-9. It does not pay to be the exact physical duplicate of a ruthless otherdimensional dictator.

Line 205:

'''The Fury'''

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]] (Subverted): The Fury does exactly what it was programmed to do: [[Kill All Humans|Kill all Superhumans]].

* [[Badass Decay]]: The Fury has gone from a terrifying, world-destroying abomination to being slapped down by a single team of [[C List Fodder|X-men wannabes]] who didn't even take any casualties in the process.

* [[Badass Decay]]: The Fury has gone from a terrifying, world-destroying abomination to being slapped down by a single team of [[C-List Fodder|X-men wannabes]] who didn't even take any casualties in the process.

* [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]]: This is exactly what it was meant to do.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: the Fury's first battle with Captain Britain.