Whateley Universe/Characters

Whateley Academy

Team Kimba

Amazon Brigade
Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: They get chewed out regularly after their little adventures. Whateley Academy is not a 'superhero school', but a school for mutants to learn to control their powers, and as such mutants are not supposed to be fighting crime until they are eighteen (and legally deputized in their chosen city or region).
A Shared Suffering: the original six characters (plus Bladedancer, Carmilla, and Heyoka) are all transgendered in some way, some of them because of their powers, so they have a commonality.
Author Appeal: oh definitely. Most of the Canon authors have written other TG fiction.
Backstory: Every main character except Lancer has a novella or novel for this.
Badass Crew: high school freshmen who have already fought The Necromancer and his Children of the Night? And won? Very badass.
Beware the Nice Ones
Breakfast Club
Busman's Holiday: They can't go anywhere without getting attacked or fighting villains. This doesn't seem to happen to anyone else.
Cool Loser: they live in Poe, which is supposedly the 'loony bin' dorm.
Extraordinarily Empowered Girl: they're superheroines, for Pete's sake!
Fail O'Suckyname: 'Team Kimba'. Never going to strike fear in the hearts of opponents. You can thank Jade for that one.
Five-Token Band
Gender Bender: Except Jade, who's finding ways to transition on her own.
Part-Time Hero
Plug N Play Friends
Superhero
Super-Hero Speciation
Super Team
True Companions
Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World
Weirdness Magnets: They got into more trouble in their first six weeks at Whateley than most students do all year. See also Busman's Holiday above.

Toni Chandler (Chaka)

Awesomeness By Analysis: One of her skills is the ability to see Ki flows, so she has learned several attacks by watching an expert use them.
Bi the Way
Bring It: this is the essence of Toni. She first did this when facing five superpowered ninjas when she was in a nightie.
By the Power of Grayskull: she got power gloves as a Christmas present rom a teammate, and they have an activation phrase.
Casual Danger Dialog: she and Phase are two of the worst about this.
Cat Smile: 'Chaka' does mean 'leopard'.
Cheryl Blossom: pretty much sums up her relationship with Thunderbird.
Combat Commentator: she can't help it. She's the only one who can see the Ki flows.
Deadpan Snarker: When she's not being a plain old wise-ass.
Embarrassing Middle Name: It's still 'Mark'.
Epic Flail: She's recently been learning how to use meteor hammers.
Establishing Character Moment: when she gets dressed at the start of her origin story.
Eyes of Gold
Fun Personified
Genki Girl: although Generator is worse
Hard Work Hardly Works: definitely. It drives several other people nuts that she can learn Ki skills just by observing.
The Hero: She was at the forefront of the team's earliest adventures.
Improbable Aiming Skills
Improbable Weapon User and Improvised Weapon: Playing cards and sewing needles, which she uses as throwing weapons.
Indy Ploy: she lives by this trope.
Instant Expert
I Shall Taunt You: in fights, her taunting is somewhere between Sassy Black Woman and Spider-Man.
Jive Turkey: Often talks like this in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, or just to annoy Ayla.
Jumped At the Call: and how!
Kamehame Hadoken: yet another secret Ki technique she's stolen.
Kiai: she has a Kiai shout that literally projects her Ki like a weapon.
Ki Attacks
The Lancer: Her role nowadays.
Magnetic Hero
Martial Arts and Crafts
Mega Manning
Mundane Utility: she's constantly using her Ki powers to do things like dry off after a shower, or mop the floor faster.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome and Noodle Incident. Her fall combat final, against a brick, a giant, and a deviser/wizard, with a tornado and an earthquake thrown in for good measure.
Plucky Girl
Poke in the Third Eye: she can use her Ki powers to block psychic attacks.
Polyamory: She's dating Thunderbird (male) and also Riptide (female). Thunderbird doesn't know about Riptide yet. Riptide is lesbian and not happy about Thunderbird.
Power Fist: that's what the Christmas present is for.
Red Oni: To Chou's Blue, as well as to Nikki's -- except when Nikki loses her temper.
Salt and Pepper: Toni and her roommate Nikki
Sassy Black Girl: especially to mess with Ayla.
She Fu
Spider Sense: her Ki ability lets her know when someone is focusing on her
Spirited Competitor
Super Senses: Ki. It's always Ki with Chaka.
Take Our Word for It: Chaka's fall Combat Final
Transsexualism: Until she manifested and got exactly what she wanted.
Twofer Token Minority: she's a black female bisexual formerly-male mutant with hyperactivity issues. Is there any other six-fer on that page?
Waif Fu
Wall Crawl: she also figured out how to use her Ki to stick to a wall.
Weapon of Choice: Her manrikigusari (a type of chain weapon). And her meteor hammer.
When All You Have Is a Hammer: when all you have are Ki powers, Ki solves everything.
Worf Had the Flu: over Christmas, Chaka had to help Bladedancer fight off ninjas. While recovering from broken hips and confined to a wheelchair.

Nikki Reilly (Fey)

Alien Blood: It's silver.
Arbitrary Skepticism: Fey is possessed with the spirit of an incredibly old Faerie, and yet she consistently pooh-poohs Phase's idea that some of the (far younger) Greek Gods have come back and are now at Whateley Academy.
Attempted Rape: by a superpowered ninja psychopath
Bi the Way
Blood Brothers: she makes a blood pact with Carmilla.
Blood Magic: more than once, but most nastily in Christmas Elves.
Blue Oni: To Toni's Red. Well, usually.
Bob Haircut: Initially.
The Chosen One
Darkest Hour: the end of chapter 2 of Christmas Elves.
Disappeared Dad: her father and brother live in another state, because of her dad's important job with DARPA.
Distracted by the Sexy: Fey has a faerie glamour that at first she couldn't turn down or turn off. Even the gay guys in the dorm were gaping at her.
Dogged Nice Guy: Fey's boyfriend Stalwart, and his pursuit of her.
The Empath
Even the Girls Want Her: it's that darn glamour.
The Fair Folk
Fastball Special: done with Fey as the 'fastball' once, before she learned how to fly on her own.
Fate Worse Than Death: has nearly befallen her twice so far, once at the hands of Nex, and once when trapped by Hekate.
Fiery Redhead
Functional Magic
Glamour
Healing Hands
Hello, Nurse!
Insistent Terminology: She's Sidhe, not an elf. She's also rather insistent about calling Malachim's Feather a scimitar, as opposed to just 'sword'.
Even Heroes Have Heroes: Fey's Instant Fanclub, which utterly embarrasses her.
Lady of War: Fey may only be a teenager, but her spirit Aunghadhail, is one of the original nine Queens of the Sidhe.
Life Energy: she can pull Essence from almost anything natural.
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: She's light, Sara is dark.
Magical Gesture
Magical Incantation
Magic Knight: Fey is currently training to move from Squishy Wizard up to this.
The Medic: She's the Healer of the team.
Menstrual Menace: her first period at Whateley Academy is the stuff of legend. There were thunderstorms. In the hallways.
Ms. Fanservice: especially after that photo shoot for that Sierra Club poster.
Mundane Utility: Fey has enough Essence that she can waste it on things like magically drying her hair.
My Nayme Is: Her full name is 'Nichole', not the more commonly-spelled 'Nicole'.
New Spells as the Plot Demands
Odd Friendship: With Razorback.
Our Elves Are Better
Our Fairies Are Different
Pardon My Klingon: she sometimes curses in languages that haven't been spoken in millennia.
Playing with Fire: She once seduced the element of fire and had it do her bidding. She doesn't do this again, since the process is pretty embarrassing and the one time was an extreme emergency.
Pointy Ears
Polyamory: Stalwart/Fey/Bugs. Stalwart doesn't know about Bugs, though.
Purple Eyes
Redheaded Hero
Shrinking Violet: When she first arrived at Whateley.
So Beautiful It's a Curse: it's literally a curse, since Word of God says her glamour is due to the ancient Faerie wards that still provide protection.
Squirrels in My Pants: the first magic that Nick (accidentally) does.
Squishy Wizard
Superpower Lottery: oh, yeah. She's one of the most powerful Wizard-type mutants on earth, and she has the spirit of an ancient Faerie Queen to teach her spells.
Weaksauce Weakness: To cold iron and, to a lesser degree, synthetic materials. Yes, she can be defeated by lingerie. Now that's a Kryptonite Factor.

Hank Declan (Lancer)

Absurdly Sharp Blade: He can create these by covering paper swords with his PK field.
Big Eater
Chivalrous Pervert: He went through this stage.
Dual-Wielding: With his paper shortswords.
Flat Character: He has no author, so he's not as developed as the others.
Flying Brick
Gray Eyes
Military Brat: And it shows. He's the most likely candidate for Team Kimba's leader and their strategist, and he's damn good at it.
Nice Guy
The One Guy: Him and Ayla, but Hank is the only one who actually looks male.
Straight Man

Jade Sinclair (Generator)

Abusive Parent: Her father.
Berserk Button: Don't threaten Tennyo. Jade will kill you.
Beware the Nice Ones
Beware the Silly Ones
The Chick
Cloudcuckoolander: She has her moments.
Crazy Awesome: 'Radioactive Condor Girl!'
Deal with the Devil: she has a demon mark from the Star Stalker, and its implied this has something to do her new regeneration ability. Interestingly neither Jade nor Tennyo know about this, though Sara has figured it out and told Fey. The upshot is that she'll literally do anything for Tennyo, to the point that she's thought that if Tennyo killed her the thing she'd be most worried about is making sure Tennyo didn't feel guilty.
Flanderization: Her love of Hello Kitty.
Gadgeteer Genius: She's pretending to be one.
Grand Theft Me: a variant when Tansy used her avatar powers to steal one of the copies of Jade. Since she can cast herself into living things as well, it's likely that she could also do this to people.
Happy Fun Ball: Her Kitty Compact. Shroud is also somewhere between this and Swiss Army Weapon: she looks like a girl, who suddenly sprouts chains blades and liquid nitrogen.
Healing Factor: She gets this from Tennyo -or rather, the Star Stalker- while they're inside the BIT-Splicer together. Along with a demon mark from Tenyo that neither of them know about.
Interspecies Romance: With Thuban, who usually looks like a humanoid dragon. As she will readily tell you, his scales are soft when they kiss.
Japanese Honorifics: She uses these sometimes, addressing Tennyo as 'Onee-Sama' for instance, or Chaka as 'Chaka-sempai'.
Kawaiiko
Killer Rabbit: She's turned Tennyo's toy cabbit into this.
Lethal Harmless Powers
Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Towards Thuban.
Missing Mom
Nigh Invulnerable: as Shroud, or any of her other combat bodies. She's only vulnerable to Avatars and Psionic attacks.
Older Than They Look
Pronoun Trouble: That's what happens when you can have up to five of you at once, in various bodies.
Puppy Dog Eyes
The Runaway
Sociopathic Hero: She's displayed some worrying tendencies towards this. Overlaps with Creepy Child at times.
- To clarify, most characters who have had to kill someone were upset about it to Heroic BSOD levels. Jade has killed dozens of people using a telekinetic lawnmower blade, by literally chewing through them in Killer Rabbit mode, and by raising an army of telekinetic zombies. And...she's fine with it. She also has a rather worrying fondness for weaponry and routinely carries dozens of varieties of high explosives.
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Most of her odd behaviour is played for laughs.
Spanner in the Works: Most notably in "Christmas Elves".
Tagalong Kid: She's actually the same age as most of the others, but naturally comes across as one of these, especially since she lacks raw power and usually plays supporting roles in combat (not counting her 'other selves' like Shroud, since they pretend that they're completely separate beings).
Technical Pacifist: Also referred to as 'NRA pacifism': She alternates between wearing a pacifist armband and an ultraviolent armband. Randomly. Her point is that you should avoid violence whenever you can. But if you can't, deploy overwhelming force. She considers it Mama Bear training.
Transsexualism

Billie Wilson (Tennyo)

All of the Other Reindeer: She's ostracised because people hear 'Section 33' and think 'dangerous, homicidal, wantonly-murdering psychopath'. Those who get to know her usually quite like her.
Anime Hair: It literally follows its own personal gravity. Her flight powers work on a similar principle.
Berserk Button: She's quite protective of Jade.
Big Eater: It's implied that this is to compensate for a lack of proper nutrition, since her real diet is supposed to be demons.
The Big Guy
Bizarre Alien Biology
Bloody Murder: Her blood has antimatter in it... But only sometimes.
Captain Ersatz: Invoked.
Combo-Platter Powers
Cool Big Sis: Jade sees her this way.
Cute Little Fangs
Extreme Omnivore: She's eaten ectoplasmic spider-rats, voodoo wolves, and the souls of demons. Averted when it comes to actual human food.
Eyes of Gold
Eldritch Abomination / Humanoid Abomination The Stalker of the Stars/The Scourge/The Destroyer was one before it bonded with Billy to escape...something.
Flying Brick
Flying Firepower
Glowing Eyes of Doom / Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her irises sometimes go red when she's very angry. But actually, it's when they glow green that you really need to start worrying -- that's when she's channeling the Star Stalker.
God Mode Sue: Intended as a Deconstruction. Your Mileage May Vary on whether it works or not.
Healing Factor
Heroic BSOD: In "Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy".
Laser Blade
Nigh Invulnerability: Thanks to her incredible Healing Factor.
Person of Mass Destruction: Her higher end powers generate hard radiation as a side effect. And if the Star Stalker starts to come out, just existing causes her to start damaging reality.
Psychic Block Defense: Probably has something to do with the Star Stalker being made to fight insanity-inducing Eldritch Abominations.
Reality Warper: While most of her powers are ultimately based in this (for example, flying by ignoring gravity and manipulating her acceleration), they don't normally go into reality-rending territory unless she loses control of them.
Super Toughness
Tsundere
Unusual Ears
The Woobie: In 'Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy, Part 5/6', her memories of being the Star Stalker are unlocked. As a result, she remembers the millions of people the Star Stalker killed, and because she's got it stuck in her, she ends up believing that she, Billie, killed them.

Ayla Goodkind (Phase)

All of the Other Reindeer: A huge number of people ostracise him for being a Goodkind, or for being intersexed.
- 'Ayla and the Mad Scientist' has even more people ostracise him after rumours spread that he personally kicked Chou off the team.
Badass Bookworm
Benevolent Boss
Blue Blood
Break the Haughty: His origin story.
Characterization Marches On: A variation. There's the Ayla before Diane Castle started writing for him and the Ayla after. Chronologically though, they exist simultaneously, due to the fact that the Diane Castle version is basically a Retcon via Alternate Character Interpretation.
Chivalrous Pervert
Crazy Prepared: He tries, though it doesn't always work.
Crimefighting with Cash
Deadpan Snarker
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: As an appearance trope, it's more suited to pre-Diane Ayla, who was characterized by a 'punk' look.
Fallen Princess
First-Person Smartass
Food Porn: A big part of his stories.
Green Eyes: Though the 'spitfire' aspect of this trope mostly applies to pre-Diane Ayla.
Guile Hero
Heroic BSOD: In "Ayla and the Tests".
Honor Before Reason: While he's a really reasonable person, sometimes he goes off on tangents.
I Have No Son: His parents disown him after he manifests.
- His siblings (minus Heather) still care about him, though.
Intangible Man
Jerkass Has a Point: Mutants are dangerous, do a lot of damage and need to be curtailed in certain cases. While the methods of curtailing need close examination and refinement, Ayla's not wrong when he says that the Knights of Purity are a needed force.
Laser-Guided Karma: Has incredibly harsh things to say about his sister's choice to transition. About five minutes later he takes off the jumpsuit he was imprisoned in and finds out he's on the same path.
Lethal Harmless Powers: Walking through objects? How boring. Being able to disintegrate matter by phasing back to solid within it? Not boring! Being able to fry electricity and knock people out by being partially solid? Definitely not boring! Being tough enough to slough off most attacks? Really not boring! Being able to trash the BI Ts of Exemplars and Shifters and turn them into monsters? Argh!
Never Live It Down: Fireball. Phase turned her into a monster by trashing her BIT (accidentally), and keeps thinking about it despite the fact that he never intended to do it and despite the number of Exemplars he did the same thing to, none of them got their BI Ts trashed.
- He likes Brass Monkey (an alternative band) that the majority of other characters hate. They never stop bitching at him about it.
- When he was a child, he donated millions of dollars to the MCO and supported Emil Hammond, believing that the doctor was a good guy who was being slandered by a lot of people with a grudge. Ayla found out the truth, and now he won't stop beating himself up for it- despite repeatedly being told by his friends that nobody would blame a kid for donating money to a cause that his parents told him was right.
The One Guy: Him and Hank, but Hank is the only one who actually looks male.
Pride Before a Fall
Pronoun Trouble: Other people are forever calling Ayla "she/her", even after being told he's not.
Properly Paranoid
Self-Deprecation: Ayla constantly puts himself down, especially in the field of fighting- the rest of Team Kimba are so good he feels he's at a major disadvantage. Never mind the fact that he beat Chaka, nearly beat Lancer, beat Tennyo, and has managed to either win, get even if he didn't win, or get out of every fight he's been in. He's also one of the most potentially destructive members of Team Kimba.
The Smart Guy
Straight Man
Teen Genius
Uncle Pennybags: He thinks nothing of spending money on his friends (when they allow it), or on anything he sees as a good cause. Justified, especially after 'Ayla and the Birthday Brawl', when he's the richest teenager on the planet minus some who are going to inherit fortunes.
Unreliable Narrator: Semi-intentionally. He's got a pretty good opinion of the Goodkinds and their works, but canon has proven that they definitely aren't what Phase thinks they are- and he knows it. Take everything he says about them with a grain of salt. It's justified because they are his family, and he's only spent about a year discovering the differences.
Utility Belt
The White Prince

Chou Lee (Bladedancer)

Absurdly Sharp Blade: Destiny's Wave.
Action Girlfriend: To Molly.
Blue Oni: To Toni's Red.
The Chosen One
Conveniently an Orphan
Green Eyes
Healing Hands
Heroic BSOD: In "To The Mountain".
Hot Chick with a Sword
Ki Attacks: She mostly uses her Ki for mobility: moving a great distance with a single stride, jumping, and sometimes Wall Crawling. She's starting to use it for healing, and once she used it to induce a heart attack.
It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
Limited Wardrobe: Most of her clothing consists of mandarin tops and yoga pants.
Missing Mom
Orphan's Ordeal
Polyamory: She, Molly, and Dorjee eventually decide to try this out.
Sixth Ranger
Strong as They Need to Be: When the Tao decides to step in.
Talking Weapon: Destiny's Wave.
Upgrade Artifact: Destiny's Wave.

Friends of Team Kimba

Bunny Cormick (Bugs)

Blue Eyes
Bunny Ears Lawyer: She's a brilliant scientist and inventor, but all of her gadgets tend to be rabbit- or egg-themed.
Everythings Better With Bunnies
Gadgeteer Genius
Girlish Pigtails
Hot Scientist
Meaningful Name

Elena Neva Natividad Amicella Lucita Obregon (Riptide/"Rip")

Blue Eyes
Making a Splash
Multicolored Hair: Black hair with a red streak down the center.
Only Known by Their Nickname
Overly Long Name

Vanessa Jackson (Vox)

Abusive Parents: Her dad beat up her mother and her repeatedly. She's got issues.
Compelling Voice
Purple Eyes

Lily Turner (Wallflower)

Barrier Warrior
Captain Ersatz: She has the same powers, family of superheroes and appearance as Violet Parr. Obviously she also shares all these things with The Invisible Woman as well.
Domino Mask
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Invisibility
Pettanko
Shiny Midnight Black

Molly Harrington (Gateway)

Ambassador Rythax

Ambadassador
Familiar: To Gateway. Sort of.
Fun Size: Can turn into this.
Mega Neko: His apparent natural form when not shrunk for human convenience.
Occult Blue Eyes
Panthera Awesome
Sizeshifter
Talking Animal
Vertebrate with Extra Limbs

Other Poe Residents

Kendall Forbes (Beltane/"Belle")

Marty Penn (Mega-Girl)

Flying Brick
The Team Wannabe: She keeps trying to get into the Empire City Guard, and they keep turning her down.
Younger Than They Look

"Jay-Jay" Jendleschmidt (Scrambler)

Elaine Fleischer (Delta Spike)

Gadgeteer Genius
Hollywood Nerd: Dressed up like a Type 2 in an attempt to look more professional for the Weapons Fair. Phase lampshaded the whole concept and speculated that she'd draw in a larger crowd if she just wore her super-suit.
Hot Scientist
Never Live It Down: In-universe, every time she blows something up. Phase doesn't want to fund her because of this.
Stuff Blowing Up: Happens a lot with her. Her creations are known for going spectacularly wrong, earning her the nickname "Explosion Queen" around the Workshop.

Sara's Pack

Sara Waite (Carmilla) aka The Kellith

Alien Blood: A purplish-black 'ichor'.
Battle in the Center of the Mind: In "Insanity Prerequisite".
Bizarre Alien Biology
Combat Tentacles
Curtains Match the Window: After "The Blood Oath"
Cute Little Fangs
Dark Is Not Evil
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Her original look.
Eldritch Abomination
Even the Girls Want Her
Evil Redhead: Well, she's got the look, anyways. And there are plenty of people who do think she's evil.
Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: She looks like this naturally, without wearing makeup.
Expository Hairstyle Change
Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
Goth
Half Human Hybrids: Genetically, she's all demon, but her mother was human. Okay, her mother is actually a Deep One, but she was human when she gave birth to her.
Healing Factor
Hellish Pupils
Kryptonite Factor: Orichalcum.
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: She's dark, Fey is light.
Lesbian Vampire: Technically not a vampire, or a lesbian for that matter, though she does seem to prefer girls. She's clearly meant to evoke this, though; her codename is an obvious reference to that Carmilla.
Lovecraftian Superpower
Naughty Tentacles
Older Than They Look
Photographic Memory: She's not the only one, but hers is especially notable.
Physical Goddess
Psychic Powers
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Sixth Ranger: Formerly, to Team Kimba
The Sleepless
The Snark Knight -> Ethical Slut / Good Bad Girl
Super Intelligence
Super Speed: Via time-slowing. At first it appeared to just be enhanced reflexes experienced through a Bullet Time-like effect, but it turned out she could move at 'normal' speed while everything else was slowed down.
Vampiric Draining: She drains the blood and life force from the creatures she eats, which reduces them to ashes.
Voluntary Shapeshifting
Waking Up At the Morgue
Wall Crawl
Weakened by the Light: Until the events of "Insanity Prerequisite".

Chad Wilson / Merry Powell / Paige & Petra Donner (Circuit Breaker)

The Berserker: All young weres have this problem.
Blue Eyes
Catgirl
Church Militant: She was one person when she first became this. After the split, the job went to Petra.
Combo-Platter Powers
Cute Little Fangs
Healing Factor
Hermaphrodite
Inside a Computer System
Lemony Narrator
Literal Split Personality
Monochromatic Eyes: Before she became a Were Cat.
Our Werebeasts Are Different: Were Cat.
Playful Hacker
Shock and Awe
Split Personality
Technopath
Techno Wizard: Even before manifesting, to a degree.
Unreliable Narrator
Unusual Ears

Jamie Carson (Heyoka)

Ambiguous Gender: His/her default form.
Blessed with Suck
Eyes of Gold
Gender Blender Name
Hermaphrodite: His/her default form.
Involuntary Shapeshifting: His/her powers automatically force shapeshifting upon him/her.
Magical Native American
Pronoun Trouble

Erin Wynguard (Feral)

Animorphism
Eyes of Gold
Demoted to Extra: Made a few appearances before her author vanished, leaving the Canon Cabal uncertain what to do with her. She hasn't appeared since.
Voluntary Shapeshifting
Wild Hair

Outcast Corner

Breakfast Club
Garage Band: They play in a room under Hawthorne, and people often stop by to listen to them.
True Companions

Joseph Turner (Jericho)

Blind Black Guy
Blind Musician: He plays bass guitar.
Brown Note: His wardrobe reaches this level in some stories.
Combat Medic
Deadpan Snarker: A notorious smart-ass.
Disability Superpower
Hollywood Pudgy
Impossibly Tacky Clothes: He intentionally dresses in the most hideous combination of clothes that he can find, to the point that it's a weapon. That poor, poor mook.
Milky White Eyes
Nerd Action Hero
Powered Armor: He designed it for medics like himself to wear on battlefields.

Jack Carlyle (Razorback)

The Berserker: He prefers not to enter rage-mode, though.
Berserk Button: An arguable example: high-pitched sonics drive him crazy and cause him to enter an Unstoppable Rage, whether he wants to or not.
Big Eater
Bully Hunter
Chivalrous Pervert
Everything's Better with Dinosaurs
Healing Factor
Hidden Depths: He plays guitar, and he's really good at it. The Grove called him 'a murderer with the soul of a bard'.
Land Down Under: Where he's from.
Lightning Bruiser
Odd Friendship: With Fey.
Super Speed

Sandra/Ryan Carter (Diamondback)

Berserk Button: Sharisha insulting Chaka and Fey and carelessly outing them in the process was enough to make her cross the room and slap her before either of the other two could pull themselves together enough to react.
The Empath
Fetish: She is one, much to her displeasure, as she's been approached by guys who were only interested in her for being a snake-woman.
Genius Bruiser
Shrinking Violet: When it comes to singing in public.
Snake People
Split Personality: Ryan and Sandra both cooperate, and claim that it's more like a "dual processor" than an actual case of this trope. However, they do have notably different mannerisms.
Teen Genius

Caitlin Bardue (Eldritch)

Badass Abnormal
Good Is Not Nice
The Insomniac / The Sleepless: She only needs to sleep a few hours a night.
Le Parkour
Military Brat: Her cover story.
Older Than They Look
Poke in the Third Eye: She's set up a lot of mental defenses against invading telepaths -- her brain is essentially a psychic minefield.
Tranquil Fury: When she does snap, she gets really focused, reverting back to her training.
Ultimate Blacksmith
Unstoppable Rage: Certain situations can trigger this, sending her into a Tranquil Fury.

The Bad Seeds

"Okay. We’re the kids of some of the biggest villains in the world. Wealth and power undreamt of by mortal man. And so far our ambitions include solving roommate problems, patent development, the possible destruction of the world, and covering the campus in concrete to turn it into a giant skate park."
—Jadis, "The Bad Seeds"

Jadis Diabolik (She-Beast)

Badass Bookworm: Like Phase, she reads a lot.
Dark Is Not Evil
Deadpan Snarker
Eyes of Gold
Genre Savvy
Hollywood Homely
Horned Hairdo
In the Blood: She's constantly harassed by people who believe that she's a supervillain because her father is, or who blame her for the death of a loved one.
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Aversion, and she's aware of it.
Psychic Block Defense: Her father bound a devil to her soul, which influenced her PK shield. It's also proven to be an effective defense against psychics- one tried to read her and freaked out.
Pettanko
Rules Lawyer: As the daughter of Dr Diabolik, she knows damn well that the law will get her on anything wrong she does, so she learns all the laws so she knows her rights in any circumstance. It's helped her out a few times.
Team Mom
White-Haired Pretty Girl: Except for the 'pretty' part.

Jobe Wilkins

Affably Evil: Sometimes. He may be one of the least likeable people on campus, but he does try, in his own condescending way, to be polite and reasonable. Of course, since he's lacking in empathy, his good intentions are seldom well-received.

Ayla: You think that he’d try to cheat me and screw me over?
Jadis: No, I think that he would screw you over in complete honesty and sincerity.

Alternate Character Interpretation
Badass Bookworm: More so after his transformation, which boosted his physical attributes.
Baleful Polymorph: He's suffering from this himself due to the lab accident mentioned below, but aside from that, he's notorious for having done this to other students.
Code Name: More or less the only aversion: His official code name is simply "Jobe Wilkins" (he doesn't need one, nobody's going to go after his family).
Faux Affably Evil: On a couple of occasions, when he's lectured people who were being affected by Body Horror he caused himself.
Geek Physique: Despite having received martial arts training from a young age, his original body was not in the best of shape.
Heroic Comedic Sociopath
Hoist by His Own Petard: He created a drow serum to make the perfect girlfriend for himself. And then he accidentally injected himself with it. It worked perfectly.
Horny Scientist
Insufferable Genius
Jerkass
Literal Genie
Mad Doctor
Minored in Asskicking
Pet the Dog: He defended his old roommate, Oak, a few times.
- Ayla also noted that he created an effective vaccine for dysentery that was estimated to save nearly a million lives a year and donated it to the Gates Foundation for free.
Poisoned Weapons
Royal Brat
Teen Genius
Unreliable Narrator: Due to his ego, his viewpoint can be highly slanted at times. One memorable scene in "The Second Book of Jobe" had him convinced that Jadis was madly in love with him, and interpreting everything she did or said accordingly.

Malachi "Mal" Diabolik (Techno-Devil)

Affably Evil: He is planning to join the villain business...
Electronic Eyes
Gadgeteer Genius
Horned Hairdo
Mad Scientist
Spell My Name with an "S": Malachai or Malachi? The former is used in earlier stories, while the latter is used in later stories and on the wiki.

Jean-Armand St. Michel-du Chantraine (Nephandus)

Blond Guys Are Evil
Cultured Badass: He likes to think that he's one of these.
Deal with the Devil: He's stated to be very good at making contracts for these.
Ermine Cape Effect: He's constantly wearing what Ayla refers to as a "Merchant-Ivory wardrobe."
Overly Long Name
Post-Modern Magik: He's been trying to combine magic and technology, with varying success.
Right-Hand Attack Dog: His cyber-golem.
Royal Brat: His mother is a countess, though her claim to the title is rather spotty at best.

Nathan Thurston (Thrasher)

Beware the Nice Ones: He fought fiercely when his Hooligan friends were attacked by the Lamplighter during a run.
Cool Board: Creates one with his powers.
Cloudcuckoolander: The "giant skate park" idea mentioned above? That was his.
Crowning Moment of Awesome: He faced down the Dragonslayers to protect his father. When he was eight.
Le Parkour
Surfer Dude: The skateboarding equivalent.

Katrina "Kate" Margya Joszinya Tvardowski (Nacht)

Casting a Shadow
Creepy Monotone
Crowning Moment of Funny: When she gets psychically whammed by Bliss, who induces happiness, her reaction is to scream 'I'm happy! The bitch must DIE!'
Deadpan Snarker
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Expy: Of Wednesday Addams (the movie version played by Christina Ricci).
Overly Long Name
The Snark Knight
The Stoic

Romeo LaClavar (Rosethorn)

Beware the Nice Ones
Bishonen: He claims that one of the reasons his girlfriends always break up with him is because "They don't like not being the pretty one in the relationship."
Five Stages of Grief: The other Bad Seeds have their own set of these for him getting over a breakup. They're more or less the same ones, but in a slightly different order.
Glamour
Long-Haired Pretty Boy
Meaningful Name
Psychic Powers
Serial Romeo: More or less his defining characteristic.
- Much to his own dismay. He'd rather find his One True Love.
Unstoppable Rage: What happens when he reaches the "Anger" stage.

Marian Kilgareth-Donnehammer (Winter)

Elemental Powers
- Blow You Away
- An Ice Person
The Team Wannabe: She wants to join the Capes, mostly just so she can say she did.

Victor Alexander Maria Stieglitz-Von Maas (Cheese)

Cheshire Cat Grin
Einstein Hair
Giggling Villain
Multiple Choice Past: When asked about the origins of his codename, he never tells the same story twice.
Overly Long Name

Lindsay Fellows (Dragonrider)

The Beast Master
The Ingenue
Moe
Token Good Teammate: While the Bad Seeds are not (for the most part) actually bad people, she's the only one that would never be mistaken as the villainous sort. This is partially due to her sweet nature, and partially to a protective charm her father placed on her that keeps people from making the mental connection between "girl who hangs out with the Bad Seeds" and "daughter of a supervillain".

Raymond Banks (Render)

Scary Black Man

Laurel Hua/Hua Chu Lan (Silver Serpent)

Lady of War
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Substituting 'would-be global conqueror' for 'mad scientist'.

Belphoebe Blackadar-Wilkins

Really Was Born Yesterday: She's a cloned drow, so while she appears 16 and is treated as such by the administration, staff and students; chronologically she's 0.
Code Name: To date, the second aversion, together with her "mother" Jobe. On the other hand, this is probably because she's still working out who she is...
Gadgeteer Genius: Demonstrated in "Saks and Violence"

The Lit Chix

Author Avatars
Amateur Sleuths / Kid Detectives
Gaming Clan
Only Known by Their Nickname: The group's official name is the Literary Club.^[1] Nobody actually calls them that.
Parody Sues
Xtreme Kool Letterz: Chix = Chicks, in case you didn't get it.

Elaine "Doc" Nalley (Loophole)

Ascended Extra: Sort of. She gradually grew in importance, until she eventually got her own one-shot, and then a very lengthy solo story that's actually fairly important to the main plot (As opposed to the early Lit Chix stories, which could be skipped without the reader missing anything of importance).
Awesome By Analysis / Instant Expert: It's part of her gadgeteer power.
Badass Bookworm
Fiery Redhead
Gadgeteer Genius: One of the most terrifying. She has a 100% success rate. Now imagine what she might build... thank God she isn't a supervillain.
The Gunslinger
Nerds Are Sexy
Powered Armor
Rules Lawyer: Hence the codename.
Southern-Fried Genius
Technological Pacifist
Wrench Wench

Joanne "Jo" Gunnarson (Murphy)

Animate Dead: She does this unintentionally.
Combo-Platter Powers
Deadpan Snarker
Genki Girl: She's occasionally hyperactive.
Gray Eyes
Healing Factor
Multicolored Hair: Blonde with purple bangs. It's actually dyed.
Parody Sue: To a much greater degree than any of the other Chix.
Reality Warper
Sixth Ranger
Teleport Spam
Tomboy
Winds of Destiny Change

Rebecca Corbin (Foxfire)

Conspiracy Theorist: Is convinced that Team Kimba has a long thought-out plan for taking over campus.
Familiar: A young silver fox named Boots (short for Slyboots).
Ms. Exposition: In "The Clue of the Unseen Switch". This is apparently a thing of hers; in "The Big Idea", she commented on Reach's speech with: "Wow, and I thought that I loved exposition!"
Skunk Stripe

Babs Younkle (Compiler)

Dee Castle (Fractious)

The Alphas

Don Sebastiano

Anything That Moves
Big Bad: More like Disc One Final Boss.
Brilliant but Lazy: He's quite capable when he puts his mind to it, but usually prefers to let other people handle the work.
Charm Person
Complete Monster: See Depraved Bisexual.
Depraved Bisexual: Not openly, but he raped both Cavalier and Skybolt while they were mind controlled.
Handsome Lech
Latin Lover
Manipulative Bastard
Smug Snake
Telepathy

Hekate

Black Magic
Complete Monster: What she was going to do to Fey. She would have enjoyed every second of it.
Deal with the Devil
The Dragon
Evil Sorceress
Man Behind the Man: She actually does a lot of the Don's work. In fact, The Don isn't the one who put Cavalier and Skybolt under mind control. She did that, using a thrall spell.

Tansy Walcutt (Solange)

Alpha Bitch
Evil Counterpart: In some ways, she's what Ayla could have been.
Freudian Excuse: She was heavily bullied as a child. Now that she's older and powerful, it's payback time.
Manipulative Bitch: She was, especially in the year before the Kimbas arrived, but she's slipped a lot.
Rich Bitch

Wyatt Cody (Kodiak)

Affably Evil: During the Don's reign.
The Casanova: In his earlier years at the school.
Nice Guy: He's really not bad.

Bluejay

Hamper and Damper

Power Nullifier: Damper's powers. It doesn't seem to be universally effective, however.
Those Two Bad Guys

The Three Little Witches

Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Clover, Abra, and Palantir respectively.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Cute Witches
Deliberately Cute Children: Though in Clover's case, it's not always an act.
Plucky Comic Relief

Clover

Canine Companion: Her dog, Buttons, who can Size Shifting into a Canis Major.
Cheerful Child
Hair of Gold
Nice Hat: A witch hat, as she'll proudly let you know.
Winds of Destiny Change

Palantir

Crystal Ball: Can summon one.
Insistent Terminology: She's annoyed by people shortening her codename to "Pally".
Messy Hair
Plucky Girl

Abracadabra

The Smart Guy: Especially compared to the other two. She's easily the most rational.

Peeper and Greasy

Peeper

Casanova Wannabe
Jerkass
X-Ray Vision
- Power Incontinence - He lies about this to get out of trouble with enraged females (aside from those in authority, who presumably already know), but his X-ray vision is always on.

Greasy

C.O.R.E.

Mokele'

Angry Black Man
Gender Bender: And not happy about it.

Keystone

Nightshade

Brainwashing: Did this to a girl named Rachel, turning her into her servant- though notably, not with psychic powers.
Sensual Slavs
Statuesque Stunner

Omega

Affably Evil: He and Phase seem to get along well.
Camp Gay: Likes lounging around in colorful island clothes while reading romantic sonnets.

Brainflash

Affably Evil
Boring but Practical: His proposal for getting one of Jericho's old devices - just buy it from him.
Gadgeteer Genius

Glitter

Emotion Eater

Paparazzi

Other students

Jimmy Trauger (JT) aka "Jimmy T."

Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Pulled this off during the Halloween attack.
Big Eater
Bully Hunter
Combo-Platter Powers: He was created with this in mind; his author stated that she just picked out three completely unrelated powers.
First-Person Smartass
Green Eyed Red Head: His unshifted human form.
He Who Fights Monsters: During the Halloween fight, he killed a lot of attackers in the form of a giant monster. A lot of people were worried that he'd play the trope straight.
I See Dead People
Never Live It Down: In-universe. In his freshman year, some guy tried to bully him. He responded by turning into a giant blob and consuming him. After security forced him to spit the guy out, he said - jokingly - that he was 'tasty'. Now people think he's a cannibal.
Psychic Block Defense: He's a psychic null. Nothing gets in and nothing gets out.
Voluntary Shapeshifting

Thuban

Bigger on the Inside: His superpower. He keeps it top secret, simply pretending that his only power is, well, being a dragon.
The Chessmaster: A fairly minor example.
Magnificent Bastard
Our Dragons Are Different: Well, he looks like one, anyway.

Kerry Ellison (Seraphim) aka "The Angel of Hell's Kitchen"

Ambiguous Gender: After manifesting, she initially leaned towards this.
Curtains Match the Window
The Empath
Eyes of Gold
Hair of Gold: Invoked, as it turns out.
Healing Hands
Power Gives You Wings
White Haired Pretty Person: Her original look

Anna Parsons (Aquerna)

Expy: She's Squirrel Girl without the Plot Armor
Heart Is an Awesome Power
Hollywood Homely
The Ingenue / Naive Everygirl
Motor Mouth
Parental Abandonment
Le Parkour
Sinister Scythe: Well, a kama, anyway.
Speaks Fluent Animal: Can talk to squirrels.
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: She frequently laments this.

Whateley Staff

Headmistress Elizabeth Carson (Lady Astarte)

Base Breaker: Over whether her actions so far are justified due to following Mrs. Potter's Omniscient Morality License... if that is indeed what she's doing.
Big Good
Flying Brick
I Did What I Had to Do
Magic Knight: Or a magic Brick, anyway.
Older Than They Look
Retired Badass
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Not forever, but she's aging at 1/3 the normal rate and has seen a lot of people die.

Chief Franklin Delarose

Amelia Hartford

Dean Bitterman
Hidden Heart of Gold: Reserved only for certain individuals.
Jerkass Facade: It's been hinted that she's putting on an act at least part of the time.
Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sadist Teacher: Well, school administrator, anyway. Carson briefly mentioned her having actual clinical sadism, in such a way that it was difficult to tell if she was joking.
Techno Wizard
When She Smiles: The effect was actually disturbing to a student who witnessed it, seeing as it was such a change from her usual demeanor.

Samantha Everheart (Hive)

Badass Abnormal
Karma Houdini: During her military service, she murdered a girl and boy for no apparent reason. When other people find out about it, they don't care.
Nanomachines
Older Than They Look
Technopath

Sensei Ito

Badass Grandpa
Badass Normal
Combat Pragmatist
Doesn't Like Guns: Being a martial artist, he used to not use guns. Then one of his sparring partners beat him by pulling a gun on him in the training room and shooting him with a paint round. He got over his aversion to guns real fast, after that.
Miniature Senior Citizens
Old Master

Reverend Darren Englund

Badass Preacher
Base Breaker: Try asking the fanbase whether they think Englund should have expected the Syndicate to go back on their deal and invade the school. Half of them think that he couldn't have possibly seen it coming, and the other half think he should be crucified for letting them into the school.
Church Militant
He Who Fights Monsters
Inspector Javert: To Sara
Knight Templar
Morality Pet: Kerry. Nightbane and the rest of the Goobers also count, whatever you may think of them.
Spell My Name With A U: It's Englund, not England. It doesn't help that half of the actual canon authors can't get it straight either.
Van Helsing Hate Crimes: With Sara.

Erik Mahren

Badass Normal: Very much so.
Badass Teacher: You do not mess with his students. Even if you're the Lamplighter.
Cape Busters: A former one.
Combat Pragmatist
Don't Call Me "Sir"!
Good Is Not Nice
Le Parkour
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Cat is killed at Halloween.

Fubar

Cthulhumanoid: What his real body looks like.
Nice Guy
Oh God, Did He Just Hear That?: He just can't help it.
Projected Man: He communicates with people through a psychic projection.
Psychic Powers
The Smart Guy: One of the smartest in the world.
Stealth Hi Bye: Tends to do this with his projection.

Outside Whateley

The Children of the Night

The Necromancer (Charles Upton Darrow)

Big Bad
Evil Sorcerer
Necromancer: Are you surprised?
Poisoned Weapons: His gauntlet darts.
Villain Decay: It's kind of hard to take the man seriously when he's lost to the same group of teenagers. Twice. May be Averted with the latest story. ~~Only time will tell.~~ Well, he's starting to get better, anyway.
- Not helping is the recent introduction of Mimeo, Mephisto, and to a lesser extent Lady Jettatura, all villains much more competent and interesting than him.
Xanatos Gambit: He claims that his losses in Boston were him pulling these, but it comes off as a weak attempt to keep himself from looking bad. However, the Birthday Brawl features him masterfully executing several of these, making out like a bandit and only failing one of his many objectives -- albeit, the most important ones.
- That failure was caused by a fact that he couldn't have known: a Unknown Unknown.

Lycanthros

Big Badass Wolf
The Dragon: The Necromancer treats him like this, at least.
Eyepatch of Power / Evil Eye: After Boston Brawl 1.
Kryptonite Factor: To silver and mithril.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Between his human and werewolf forms.
Werewolf

Lady Darke (Sandra K. Darden)

Casting a Shadow: Her favorite trick is to create psionic darkness that almost no one can see through.
High Collar of Doom
Psychic Powers: The source of her abilities

The Arch-Fiend (Wilbur Bunsen)

Big Red Devil
Breath Weapon
The Brute
The Man Behind the Curtain: His true form is a pudgy, middle-aged man.
Spikes of Villainy: In his demon form.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Between his human and demon forms.

Nightgaunt

Combat Pragmatist: His immediate reaction to being confronted by Lancer? Shoot him in the face.
The Faceless: He never takes off his helmet.
Legacy Character: The original Nightgaunt was a Badass Normal hero. The new one, not.
Power Gems: The source of his shadow-walking abilities.
Teleportation
The Voiceless

Vamp

Other Villains

The Chessmaster

Big Bad: During the Halloween attack.
The Chessmaster
Chess Motifs
Deceptive Disciple
Nightmare Fetishist: He's lovers with Deathlist. 'Nuff said.
Scry vs. Scry: Against Mrs. Potter

Deathlist

Complete Monster
Cyborg
The Dragon: To the Chessmaster.
Hero-Killer
Man of Wealth and Taste: Wore a black pinstripe suit during the Halloween attack.
Names to Run Away From Really Fast
We Can Rebuild Him

Lady Jettatura

Dr. Diabolik ( Leonides Daibliku Diabolik)

Anti-Villain / Affably Evil
Artificial Limbs: A bionic left arm.
Benevolent Boss
Electronic Eyes
Fan Nickname: "Doctor Dad." Jadis called him that first; it just caught on.
Genre Savvy
Herr Doktor: He deliberately plays this up.
Horned Hairdo
Lean and Mean
Mad Scientist
Older Than They Look: He's 75, but can pull off late forties.
The Smart Guy: Jadis also mentions that he has no patience with idiots.
Visionary Villain: He follows Timothy Leary's 'SMILE' concept (Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, Life Extension) and everything he does goes toward that aim.
Well-Intentioned Extremist

Mimeo

All Your Powers Combined
Day in The Limelight: After his first appearance, he got his own ~~vignette~~ novella, "Mimeographic."
Powers as Programs: Regular power mimics can do this with mutant powers. He can do this with any powers.
Hero-Killer: Despite not actually killing anyone, he is infamous for taking on entire superhero teams and winning.
Technical Pacifist: He doesn't kill people. Doesn't have a problem with people he works for doing it, though.
Villain Sue: Potentially.
Voluntary Shapeshifting
Younger Than They Look/Older Than They Look: When he first manifested at age 12, he would often look older than he was. Later on in life, he would look younger, though without regeneration it was only superficial. At the end of "Mimeographic" his body is physically 18, but he shapeshifts to appear as if he were 28, and mentally, he's actually 55.

Mephisto The Mystic

Affably Evil
Arch Nemesis: Despite stating that it's a bad idea to become to obsessed with a single hero, he really hates the Dark Avenger.
Dangerously Genre Savvy
Kansas City Shuffle
Magnificent Bastard
Older Than They Look
Unreliable Narrator: We learn about him through a story that he's telling to an Intrepid Reporter. It's obvious from the beginning that he's biasing the narrative in his favor. Then at the end, he reveals that most of what he said was made up, with enough of it true that it will pass scrutiny should someone like Doctor Amazing dig the details out of said reporter's mind.
Xanatos Gambit: More or less every scheme he's ever pulled.

Heroes

Skyhawk

The Lamplighter

The Blank: He wears a white, featureless, full-face mask.
Captain Ersatz: Of the Green Lantern, powers-wise.
Jerkass
Knight Templar: Overlaps with him being a moron.
Light Is Not Good
Light'Em Up

Champion

Big Good
Captain Ersatz: It's made blatantly obvious from the moment he's introduced that he's a Superman equivalent. "Razzle-Dazzle" makes it even more obvious, revealing that he started out only with super strength and the ability to jump really far, but gained powers like flight and heat vision as he absorbed more power from his enemies -- in other words, he followed the same progression the real Superman did.
Kryptonite Factor: The original Champion believed that his powers could be negated by a substance called "Tartareum." No such substance exists; his reaction to "Tartareum" (That is to say, any black chunk of rock that he thought was actually Tartareum) was purely psychosomatic. Unfortunately, this was only discovered after his death, and his first successor (who learned everything he 'knew' about his powers from the original) shared this weakness; later ones do not, although we still have to meet the modern Champion in an actual story.
Legacy Character: Champion's powers come from "The Champion Force," which can be passed on to someone else should he die. This has happened multiple times.
Weaksauce Weakness: See "Kryptonite Factor" above. Pretty much anyone who could convince the original Champion that a chunk of rock was tartareum could take advantage of his one weakness. He was finally killed with nothing more than a glass knife, because it was carved from black volcanic glass and both he and his nemesis were convinced that it was made of tartareum.

The Dark Avenger

Ancient Conspiracy: Is a member of one. Maybe.
Captain Ersatz: Mostly of Batman, but there are strong elements of The Punisher, The Green Hornet, and The Spirit as well.
Knight Templar: Maybe.

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