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* [[Casanova]]: Tries to sleep with every single women he finds attractive.
* [[Foe Yay]]: With his dashing cousin Zabb, {{spoiler|goes from subtext to text, when Tachyon is trapped in a female body and starts a relationship with Zabb.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Freaky Friday Flip]]: Tachyon swaps bodies with Kelly Ann Jenkins, a teenage girl. Also a form of [[Grand Theft Me]], as the swap is enginered by Blaise, Tachyon's grandson, as a way to revenge himself on Tachyon. To make matters incredibly [[Squick|disturbing]], Blaise rapes and impregnates Tachyon.}}
* [[Ho Yay]]: Tachyon has it with almost the entire male cast.
* [[Human Aliens]]: All Takisians are.
* [[Implausible Hair Color]]: Tach's hair is metallic red, described as looking like fine copper wires.
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* [[Evil Cripple]]: When not super-charged, he is bound to a wheelchair.
* [[Evil Old Folks]]
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Somewhat subverted, in that his "dark magiks" are [[Doing
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Versus Evil]]: His ultimate goal was to fight the [[Eldritch Abomination|Swarm Mother]]}}.
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Fond of giving these.
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=== The Hero Twins ===
A pair of modern day Mayans living in Guatemala that become re-incarnations of the ancient legendary brothers, Hunapu and Xbalanque. They lead a resistance movement to recreate a Mayan regime.
* [[All Myths Are True]]: Not really, but the [[Doing
* [[The Big Guy]]: Xbalanque.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Hunapu.
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=== Mister Nobody ===
Jerry Strauss, a man capable of changing his appearance at will. He's a big movie fan, and specializes in transforming into famous actors and actresses.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Spent the first several books as "The Great Ape," a [[King Kong]] [[Expy]] whose occasional zoo escapes were often used as a [[Funny Background Event]] / [[Noodle Incident]] throughout the timeline, to the point of being used as a popular Ace pickup line: "Didn't I see you at the last Ape Escape?"
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]
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A high-class prostitute that can kill men by [[Death by Sex|having sex with them.]] She is an agent of the Astronomer.
* [[Broken Bird]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Her baby was born a monster, courtesy of the alien virus. Her husband blamed her and divorced.
* [[Death by Sex]]: Inflicts this on her targets.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]
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* [[Rape as Backstory]]: Abused as a kid by his uncle.
* [[Rape as Drama]]
* [[
=== The Sleeper ===
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* [[Making a Splash]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Her name is pronounced 'Jane Doe'.
* [[Talking to the Dead]]: Does this a lot with childhood friend Sal Carbonne.
=== Hiram Worchester ===
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* [[Anti-Villain]]
* [[The Fundamentalist]]: A partial subversion, in that Barnett is somewhat more reasonable than people would expect.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Has affairs with lots of women and secretly enjoys literature by liberal writers.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: He's charismatic and sometimes ridiculously lucky. People have suspected him of being a secret Ace.
* {{spoiler|[[President Evil]]: Barnett becomes President in the Card Sharks books. Many Wild Carders would consider him this. In truth, he's not that different from any other politician.}}
* [[Sexy Priest]]
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[[Category:Characters]]
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