Skulduggery Pleasant/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: She thankfully gets over it.

** After {{spoiler|semi-accidentally killing the bad-boy in question.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Apocalypse Maiden]]}}

* [[Berserk Button]]: Harming Skulduggery or her family.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Even without any combat experience, she instinctively knows to attack her opponents weak spot. She puts it to good use when stuck alone in a cell with Scapegrace.

* {{spoiler|[[Cool Big Sis]]: To Alison}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Determinator]]: Most notable in book four, when she rescues Skulduggery.

* [[Healing Factor]]: {{spoiler|As Darquesse.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Hearing Voices]]:}} Probably not a good sign.

* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: {{spoiler|Caelan. Caelan. ''Caelan.''}}

* [[How Much More Can He Take|How Much More Can She Take?]]: {{spoiler|Lord Vile slits Darquesse's throat, ''shoves his thumb in her eye'' and generally delivers a [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]] that leaves her on the brink of death. She pretty much walks it off. On one hand... yay! Skulduggery didn't kill Valkyrie! On the other hand... Darquesse. Just. Doesn't. Die.}} [[Oh Crap|Humanity is screwed.]]

* {{spoiler|[[Person of Mass Destruction]]}}

* [[Rage Against the Mentor]]: In book six. More sulking than actual rage.

* {{spoiler|[[Split Personality Takeover]]}}

* [[Strange Girl]]

* [[Tagalong Kid]]: At first.

* {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit]]: When cornered by Lord Vile, she gets Melancholia to kill her on purpose. Darquesse comes to play instead.}}

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: While she was always competent even as a normal 12 year old, once she discovers her magic and gets trained up by an [[Action Girl]], a [[Guile Hero]] and a [[Necromancer]] she becomes quite formidable. {{spoiler|Then she becomes Darquesse for two minutes and becomes ''terrifying.''}}

* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: She's a bit of a self absorbed jerk in ''Death Bringer.''

* [[The Watson]]

* [[Womanin Black]]

* {{spoiler|[[Your Cheating Heart]]}}

 

 

* [[Atonement Detective]]: In ''Death Bringer'' we find out what he was atoning for.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Suggested to be one. {{spoiler|Pretty much confirmed by ''Death Bringer.''}}

* [[Byronic Hero]]

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]

{{quote| '''Baron Vengeous:''' Only a heathen brings a gun to a sword fight. <br />

* {{spoiler|[[Split Personality Takeover]]}}

* [[Staying Alive]]

* [[That Man Is Dead|That Face Is Dead]]

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: When he's feeling homicidal.

'''Skulduggery:''' [[Papa Wolf|I just need a name.]] }}

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Famous for this. ''They weren't kidding.''

** He got this from Valkyrie in ''Death Bringer.''

 

==== '''Ghastly Bespoke''' ====

 

* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]

* [[Heartbroken Badass]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]

* [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]: She likes her horse for this reason. It could possibly be the reason she's so fond Valkyrie and Skulduggery.

* [[Impractically Fancy Outfit]]: Falls victim to this occasionally. She briefly considers wearing leather like Tanith Low but comes to her senses. "Class is a gift that gives eternally."

* [[Knowledge Broker]]

* [[Lady of War]]

* [[No Sympathy]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Acts this way towards Valkyrie every now and then.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: [[Captain Obvious|She wears it better than Skulduggery apparently.]]

* [[Ship Tease]]: There was loads of it between her an Skulduggery in ''Death Bringer.'' {{spoiler|Until the end.}}

* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Seems to ship Skulduggery and Valkyrie.

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Remus Crux.}}

* [[The Tease]]

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]

* [[The Vamp]]: Has her moments. May have been one before she turned "neutral."

 

==== '''Tanith Low''' ====

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: A surrogate sister for Valkyrie.

* {{spoiler|[[Demonic Possession]]}}

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Deconstructed, as {{spoiler|he ends up not having much of a life outside of being Valkyrie's boyfriend, and it's one of the reasons why they split up.}}

* [[Distressed Dude]]

* [[Jerkass]]: Again, in ''The Faceless Ones''. [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|He grows out of it.]]

* [[Last of His Kind]]: He's the only surviving Teleporter as of ''The Faceless Ones''.

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: With Valkyrie.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: At the end of ''Death Bringer.''

* [[Teleport Spam]]

 

== Major Villains ==

==== '''Nefarian Serpine''' ====

 

* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Skulduggery. {{spoiler|Then he died.}}

* [[Axe Crazy]]

* [[Badass in A Nice Suit]]: A ''Victorian'' suit. They don't get much nicer than that!

* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Initially, anyway. {{spoiler|He not only managed to kill Skulduggery's wife and child, but ''Skulduggery himself.'' Too bad for him, [[Death Is Cheap|Skulduggery's death had been rigged.]] }}

* [[Civilian Villain]]

* [[The Dragon]]: To Mevolent, once upon a time.

** [[Dragon Ascendant]]

 

* [[Body Horror]]

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: They're the Faceless Ones. So, naturally, {{spoiler|the faces of the people they are possessing ''melt off''.}}

* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|Eventually placed in an induced coma by Doctor Nye.}}

* [[Blessed With Suck]]

* [[Dark Action Girl]]

* [[Deadly Upgrade]]: {{spoiler|''Almost'' kills her.}}

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Necromancy]]

* [[Not So Different]]: With Valkyrie. Not that either of them will admit it.

 

* [[Butt Monkey]]

* [[Determinator]]: Much good it does him.

* [[Ho Yay]]: With Thrasher.

==== '''The Torment''' ====

 

* [[Big Damn Villains]]

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Helps Valkyrie fight the Grotesquery.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Well, with a name like ''that''...

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]

 

* [[Cruel Mercy]]: {{spoiler|The reason he lets Valkyrie live after tasting her blood.}}

* [[Determinator]]: He's been described to chase after people he's got vendetta's against for ''years''...[[You Can Run but You Can't Hide|and it's been hinted he always finds them, too.]]

* [[Enigmatic Minion]]

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Being a vampire and all.

 

* [[Berserk Button]]: Taking his razor.

* [[Knife Nut]]: His knife (or razor) is unique in that the cuts caused by it will leave nasty, disfiguring scars no amount of magic can heal - a form of magic in its own.

* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: His crush on Tanith was pretty hilarious. {{spoiler|Until Mortal Coil.}}

* [[Necromancy]]

* {{spoiler|[[Treacherous Advisor]]}}

 

==== '''Auron Tenebrae''' ====

* [[Necromancy]]

* [[Sissy Villain]]

 

==== '''The White Cleaver''' ====

* [[Bumbling Dad]]: He's very nice and means well, but he ''did'' drop Valkyrie into a penguin enclosure as a child.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: ''So much.''

* {{spoiler|[[Destination Defenestration]]: Throws Moore into a window.}}

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Melissa points out that he is still a talented engineer, despite his cluelessness.

==== '''Mr. Bliss''' ====

 

* [[Badass]]: Yes. Yes he is.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Harming China.

* [[Super Strength]]: His strength is beyond legendary.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]

 

==== '''The Reflection''' ====

* [[The Stoic]]

** [[Not So Stoic]]

 

==== '''Finbar Wrong''' ====

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: The pink hospital gown he makes Skulduggery wear.

* [[Demonic Possession]]: {{spoiler|He gets better... but not before ''nailing Tanith to a chair.''}}

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Spends most of his time berating Skulduggery. ''Adores'' Valkyrie.

* [[The Medic]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]: For Valkyrie.

 

==== '''Clarabelle''' ====

* [[Clueless Detective]]

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: {{spoiler|Catches a glimpse of a Faceless One.}}

* [[He Knows Too Much]]

* [[Jerkass]]

==== '''Anton Shudder''' ====

 

* [[Man Hug]]: Violently and hilariously averted.

* [[Sacred Hospitality]]

* [[Take That]]: A somewhat less than subtle jab at our mate [[Twilight (Literature)|Eddie.]]

* [[Vampires Are Sex Gods]]:

* {{spoiler|[[Yandere]]}}: ''Dear Lord...''

 

* [[Mad Doctor]]

* {{spoiler|[[The Medic]]: Replaces grandfatherly and grumpy Kenspeckle in ''Death Bringer.''}}

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Barely described. Whatever is described seems... inhuman.

* [[Shout Out]]: When it dissects the conscious Valkyrie on the operating table, it's very reminiscent of Claire Bennet's trials and tribulations in [[Heroes]].

==== '''Madame Mist''' ====

 

* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]

* [[The Faceless]]