Excalibur (Comic Book)/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Has an empathic link with nature, including plants, wildlife, weather patterns, and so on; sensitive to the pain and damage of those around her, and has extensive healing abilities among her wide arsenal of talents. When possible she will also offer compassion to technical antagonists who are not genuinely bad people, and for example managed to talk Darkoth into seeing reason.

* [[Gender Bender]]: The potential [[Squick]] downside to the othervise virtually perfect idealised girlfriend scenario, although she usually tends to dislike and avoid it.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]

* [[His Story Repeats Itself|Her Story Repeats Itself]]: For most of her childhood she was locked up in a caravan and then was kidnapped by an evil [[Government Conspiracy]] and put in a concentration camp. Later on she stumbled upon a van full of mutant kids who had been kidnapped by a morally-ambiguous [[Government Conspiracy]] and, seeing the obvious parallels, she tried to free them. This led to her [[Took a Level In Badass|gaining control of her powers]] and all her subsequent [[Character Development]].

* [[Not Wearing Tights]]: Faiza sticks to civilian clothes.

** Until she started wearing knight's armor of course

** They're called Mindless Ones for a reason.

* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Although her creator, [[Paul Cornell]], insists that he doesn't like the way Superheroes are forced to be "standard bearers for whole communities" and he wants to make more of her than just another [[Captain Ethnic]].

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: It has been suggested that his "hot knives" are a reference to ''hot knifing'' (slang for taking cannabis).

* [[The Lancer]]

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

* [[Nineties Anti Hero]]

'''Spitfire/Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton'''

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted... although she quickly recovers.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]