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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 in Thethe Wizard|actually psionic powers given to him by the alien virus.]]
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Versus Evil]]: His ultimate goal was to fight the [[Eldritch Abomination|Swarm Mother]]}}.
* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]
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* [[Animal Eye Spy]]
* [[The Beast Master]]
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Her powers have alienated her from contact with human minds.
* [[Crazy Cat Lady]]
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Prefers animals to people.
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* [[Casting a Shadow]]
* [[Color Character]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: It combines [[Parental Abandonment]] with [[Rape Asas Backstory]] in a vividly horrifying way. Oh, and he was also [[Mind Rape|manipulated]] by Puppetman into becoming a far harsher vigilante.
* [[Double Consciousness]]: Played so many roles for so many time that he has trouble figuring out who he really is.
* [[Master of Disguise]]
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* [[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.
* [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]]
 
=== Carnifex ===
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* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]
* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]
* [[Welcome to Thethe Big City]]: Cordelia's storyline in Jokers Wild is basically this.
 
=== Demise ===
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* [[Asexuality]]: One of the only characters in Wild Cards not interested in sex.
* [[Black Comedy]]
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Constantly remembers how it felt to die.
* [[Breakout Character]]
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Closer to a Type II, Damaged Soul.
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* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Mind Control]]: A combination of [[Compelling Voice]] and [[Hypnotic Eyes]].
* [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands]]
* [[One Name Only]]
* [[Psychic Powers]]
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* [[Joisey]]: Many of his stories take place in the urban devastation that is New Jersey.
** Improved significantly by the invasion of [[The Swarm]].
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Starts as a [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]], but gradually morphs into this.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]
* [[Nerd]]
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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 in Thethe Wizard|Wild Card virus can make it so]].
* [[The Big Guy]]: Xbalanque.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Hunapu.
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* [[Casanova]]
* [[Fiery Redhead]]
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Kill It Withwith Water]]: His obvious [[Weaksauce Weakness|weakness.]]
* [[Personality Powers]]
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]
* [[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.
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* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]
* [[Humanshifting]]
* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of Thethe Body]]: Happens whenever he transforms into a non-human movie character, like [[King Kong]], a [[The Howling|werewolf]], or the [[Creature Fromfrom the Black Lagoon]].
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Magic -Powered Pseudoscience]]
* [[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.
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Past his 60s but still kicking ass.
* [[Moscow Centre]]: Used to be a KGB agent.
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]
* [[Rogue Agent]]: Of the heroic variety.
 
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* {{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.
* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]
 
=== Roulette ===
A high-class prostitute that can kill men by [[Death Byby 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 Byby Sex]]: Inflicts this on her targets.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Literally.
* [[In Love Withwith the Mark]]: {{spoiler|Subverted in that she actually tries to kill Dr. Tachyon, even as she is starting to fall for him.}}
* [[Out Withwith a Bang]]: She can secrete deadly nerve toxins ... from her vagina.
* [[Poisonous Person]]
* [[Revenge]]
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Jack Robicheaux, a Cajun transit worker with the power to transform himself into a big alligator.
* [[Animorphism]]
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]
* [[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.
* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of Thethe Body]]: Loses his human mind when he transforms.
* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: With Bagabond.
* [[Rape Asas Backstory]]: Abused as a kid by his uncle.
* [[Rape Asas Drama]]
* [[Straight Gay]]
 
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* [[Making a Splash]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Her name is pronounced 'Jane Doe'.
* [[Talking to Thethe Dead]]: Does this a lot with childhood friend Sal Carbonne.
 
=== Hiram Worchester ===
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* [[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.
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]
* [[Fat Bastard]]: [[Averted]]. He's not really a bad guy, just allied with some very bad people.
* [[The Grotesque]]
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* [[The Big Guy]]
* [[Biological Mashup]]
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: One of the most heartbreaking cases in Wild Cards.
* [[Fusion Dance]]: A permanent version.
* [[Split Personality]]: Three distinct minds inhabiting the same body.
* [[Two Guys and Aa Girl]]: Merged. Evan and John are [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]], respectively. Patti is the [[Women Are Wiser|voice of reason]].
 
=== 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.
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]
* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Quasiman is actually very intelligent, but pieces of his brain keep phasing in and out at random intervals.
* [[Gentle Giant]]