Wild Cards/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Evil Cripple]]: When not super-charged, he is bound to a wheelchair.

* [[Evil Old Folks]]

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Versus Evil]]: His ultimate goal was to fight the [[Eldritch Abomination|Swarm Mother]]}}.

* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]

* [[Animal Eye Spy]]

* [[The Beast Master]]

* [[Crazy Cat Lady]]

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Prefers animals to people.

* [[Casting a Shadow]]

* [[Color Character]]

* [[Double Consciousness]]: Played so many roles for so many time that he has trouble figuring out who he really is.

* [[Master of Disguise]]

* [[Super Serum]]: He has to ingest specially prepared powders to change into his various superhuman forms.

* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Double Subverted. He eventually marries Sunflower, the girl he's loved since forever. But their marriage is not a happy one.

 

=== Carnifex ===

* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

 

=== Demise ===

* [[Asexuality]]: One of the only characters in Wild Cards not interested in sex.

* [[Black Comedy]]

* [[Breakout Character]]

* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Closer to a Type II, Damaged Soul.

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Mind Control]]: A combination of [[Compelling Voice]] and [[Hypnotic Eyes]].

* [[One Name Only]]

* [[Psychic Powers]]

* [[Joisey]]: Many of his stories take place in the urban devastation that is New Jersey.

** Improved significantly by the invasion of [[The Swarm]].

* [[Mind Over Matter]]

* [[Nerd]]

=== 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.

* [[The Big Guy]]: Xbalanque.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Hunapu.

* [[Casanova]]

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Personality Powers]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[The Rolling Stones]].

* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]: John Jacob Flash. Possibly justified, in that he is most probably a fragment of Mark Meadows's personality, and so in essence an "artificial" person.

* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]

* [[Humanshifting]]

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: Jerry usually can't change his mass. But he can absorb energy and convert it into additional mass to change into someone bigger. In a later book, he makes explicit use of his energy absorption power to redirect electricity.

* [[Fantastic Racism]] / [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|What Measure Is A Non-Organic]]: Mostly he suffers this from his own [[Jerkass]] creator. The term "toaster" to refer to an android may have originated in Wild Cards.

* [[Flying Brick]]: Mod Man can fly, is incredibly strong, durable, has an array of sensors, and a veritable arsenal of ranged attacks.

* [[Personality Chip]]: An in-built version, Modular Man is designed to replicate human emotions and psychology.

* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: Modular Man looks completely human, and he is even fully functional. He can also [[Eating Machine|eat]] and drink.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Past his 60s but still kicking ass.

* [[Moscow Centre]]: Used to be a KGB agent.

* [[Rogue Agent]]: Of the heroic variety.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]: Sacrifices himself to save Jerusalem from atomic holocaust.}}

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Unusually for such a monstrous villain, he is often a POV character.

 

=== Roulette ===

* [[Broken Bird]]

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Her baby was born a monster, courtesy of the alien virus. Her husband blamed her and divorced.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Literally.

* [[Poisonous Person]]

* [[Revenge]]

Jack Robicheaux, a Cajun transit worker with the power to transform himself into a big alligator.

* [[Animorphism]]

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: And how.

* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]

* [[Gayngst]]: Gay and somewhat conflicted.

* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: Changes into a big, hungry alligator whenever he loses control.

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Bagabond.

* [[Straight Gay]]

 

* [[Making a Splash]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Her name is pronounced 'Jane Doe'.

 

=== Hiram Worchester ===

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Bloat is quite sympathetic, even though he is technicaly the [[Big Bad]] for the Jumper trilogy.

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: A darker version than the Turtle or Mark Meadows.

* [[Fat Bastard]]: [[Averted]]. He's not really a bad guy, just allied with some very bad people.

* [[The Grotesque]]

* [[The Big Guy]]

* [[Biological Mashup]]

* [[Fusion Dance]]: A permanent version.

* [[Split Personality]]: Three distinct minds inhabiting the same body.

 

=== Quasiman ===

Hunchbacked joker-ace with the powers of superstrength, precognition and teleportation. He's a friend of Father Squid, and handyman of the Church of Jesus Christ Joker.

* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Quasiman is actually very intelligent, but pieces of his brain keep phasing in and out at random intervals.

* [[Gentle Giant]]