The Cornelius Chronicles/Characters

Our main character, though sometimes he takes a background role in his own stories.

Agent Peacock: Bordering on Costume Porn.
Anti-Hero
Anything That Moves: Though in a cheery Jack Harkness kind of way.
Brother-Sister Incest: Jerry loves his sister Catherine (his brother Frank is the other leg in a Sibling Triangle).
- Parental Incest: He describes himself as "the last of the truly innocent mother-fuckers" in "The Swastika Set-Up". And means it.
Crossdresser: Sometimes by choice, sometimes not. Attractive Bent Gender in either case.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: From time to time.
I Let My Sister Die
Musical Assassin: Usually he favors guns of some sort, but Norman Spinrad's "The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde" arms Jerry with an electric violin with built-in amps which make the high notes ultrasonic, the low notes infrasonic, and the audible frequencies suppressed. When Jerry pops in his earplugs and plays various songs (ranging from "Wipeout" to "God Save the Queen") weird things happen to the minds of his audience.

Seven hundred chanting kindergarten children achieved satori and began to eat a huge American flag drenched in soy sauce.

Significant Monogram
- Significant Anagram: Other characters in Moorcock's Multiverse have "Jerry Cornelius" (or the alternate first name "Jeremiah") as the basis of their names, such as J'osui C'reln Reyr in The Sailor on the Seas of Fate and Corum Jhaelen Irsei.
Trickster Archetype: Jerry starts out as Harlequin, but over the course of the first four novels finds that he may be The Fool and finally settles into the role of Pierrot.

Jerry's beloved sister, and something of a tragic figure.

Closer to Earth: Catherine functions as Columbine. It's more obvious in the "real-world" portions of The Condition of Muzak.
Dead Little Sister: Several times, even
Hair of Gold, though initially she's dark-haired Jerry's Half Identical Twin.

Jerry's brother, out for what he can get.

Ambition Is Evil and Frank is Power Hungry
Cain and Abel: Frank is definitely Cain to Jerry's Abel, though he's more likely to die than kill.
Honest John: An exceptionally sleazy example.
The Resenter
Smug Snake

The domineering mother of the Cornelius clan. Survives just about everything life throws at her.

Apron Matron
Big Eater
Dirty Old Woman
Funetik Aksent: Mrs. C is Cockney an' just fine wiv that, luv.
Gold Digger: Well, she might just luck into it.
Kavorka Woman: One of the very few. Despite the fact that she is never described as less than hugely fat and slatternly, she does all right for herself.

"I've never gone short o' beaux," she said. "Whatever else 'as 'appened ter me."

My Beloved Smother: One of the few people Jerry is genuinely scared of-- and not without reason (image NSFW for female nudity in two panels).
Still Gets Around

First appearing in A Cure For Cancer, she is a heroic revolutionary and supporter of Jerry.

Action Girl
The Chanteuse
Distaff Counterpart: To Jerry. They both share Catherine as a lover, and she eventually becomes Harlequin when he becomes Pierrot.

Jerry's opposite number, big on order and authoritarianism (especially in the later stories).

Evil Redhead
Foe Yay
Manipulative Bitch
Vampiric Draining: She's capable of bodily absorbing her sex partners in The Final Programme.

Another of Jerry's enemies, though more greedy and less formidable.

Other Persons of Interest

Most of these characters show up in works after The Final Programme. They're listed in alphabetical order rather than order of appearance.

A theatrical agent/music producer and sometimes antagonist to Jerry.

You Have to Have Jews
Jive Turkey: Comes off this way in the "real-world" parts of The Condition of Muzak.

Bishop Beesley's amazingly unpleasant daughter.

A drinking (snorting, shooting, smoking) buddy of Jerry's. Also a demolitions expert and sometimes roadie.

Mysterious Informant
Significant Nickname: Gordon's got a bit of a exposure habit. (And shows up as Lady Godiva (!!) at a Christmas costume ball.)