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!!Miranda "Miri" Cruz
Chris' fiancée introduced in ''Darkhawk #51'' (2017)
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* MyGirlBackHome: Chris leaves her behind on Earth to fight the Fraternity of Raptors.
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!!Miranda "Miri" Cruz
Chris' fiancée introduced in ''Darkhawk #51'' (2017)
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* MyGirlBackHome: Chris leaves her behind on Earth to fight the Fraternity of Raptors.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Each member of the Fraternity has a differently coloured visor, to help tell them apart.
* DarkIsEvil: The Fraternity.
* DarkIsEvil: The Fraternity.
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An ancient conspiracy of the Shi'ar Empire, dedicated to protecting the imperium via their own methods. Long dormant, they begin to awaken in the aftermath of ''Secret Invasion''.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each Raptor introduced between ''Secret Invasion'' and ''Realm of Kings'' has a different color. Think an evil Super Sentai team.
* DeflectorShields: They can generate energy barriers strong enough to shrug off Vulcan, an Omega level Mutant, the same way someone would deflect a paper ball thrown at their head.
* EvilVersusOblivion: They do want to protect the Shi'ar Empire, but their methods of doing so are horrific and evil, such as assassinating Lilandra as she's trying to restore some sense of sanity. They're willing to fight against the forces of the Cancerverse in the name of keeping the imperium safe.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Take a nap for a few thousand years, and find everything's gone to crap.
* HolographicDisguise: Their armor can also disguise them as people.
* HumanResources: Fueled by some poor sap finding their gemstone and getting sucked into null space, to be used as a living battery until they expire, at which point the battery temporarily returns to null space.
* TheKingmaker: During ''War of Kings'', they initially decided to back Vulcan by killing Lilandra, but after doing so realized he was the wrong choice for a PuppetKing, and left him to his own demise.
* {{Retcon}}: Gerry Duggan's run on ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' futzes a lot about them, their operations and recruitment methods. Chris Sim's ''Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk'' tried explaining this as being a bunch of wannabes the ''real'' Fraternity weren't happy with, only for Duggan to ignore that and continue as portraying the Fraternity as he had.
* SealedEvilInACan: Long dormant, the various destructive cosmic events of Cosmic Marvel start opening up the dimensions, allowing them to operate again.
* ThemeNaming: Appropriately, all named after things to do with birds (Talon, Razor, Gyre)
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!!Talon
The first of the Fraternity to appear to Chris, when an alien robot crash lands in his backyard. Initially appearing as a mentor to the human, it soon turns out Talon's motives are not remotely what they seem.
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* DeadpanSnarker: He's got a dry wit, even in the face of Vulcan losing his temper at him.
-->'''Vulcan:''' I've killed men for saying less to me!\\
'''Talon:''' That may well explain the situation you're in, then.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Talon's not impressed by the current state of the Shi'ar, or by how some of their enemies have turned out. He remembers the insect lords of the Negative Zone being a lot more formidable.
* TricksterMentor: Starts by apparently helping Chris get a better handle on his armor, only for it to turn out this was so he could restore Razor and give Chris the boot.
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An ancient conspiracy of the Shi'ar Empire, dedicated to protecting the imperium via their own methods. Long dormant, they begin to awaken in the aftermath of ''Secret Invasion''.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each Raptor introduced between ''Secret Invasion'' and ''Realm of Kings'' has a different color. Think an evil Super Sentai team.
* DeflectorShields: They can generate energy barriers strong enough to shrug off Vulcan, an Omega level Mutant, the same way someone would deflect a paper ball thrown at their head.
* EvilVersusOblivion: They do want to protect the Shi'ar Empire, but their methods of doing so are horrific and evil, such as assassinating Lilandra as she's trying to restore some sense of sanity. They're willing to fight against the forces of the Cancerverse in the name of keeping the imperium safe.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Take a nap for a few thousand years, and find everything's gone to crap.
* HolographicDisguise: Their armor can also disguise them as people.
* HumanResources: Fueled by some poor sap finding their gemstone and getting sucked into null space, to be used as a living battery until they expire, at which point the battery temporarily returns to null space.
* TheKingmaker: During ''War of Kings'', they initially decided to back Vulcan by killing Lilandra, but after doing so realized he was the wrong choice for a PuppetKing, and left him to his own demise.
* {{Retcon}}: Gerry Duggan's run on ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' futzes a lot about them, their operations and recruitment methods. Chris Sim's ''Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk'' tried explaining this as being a bunch of wannabes the ''real'' Fraternity weren't happy with, only for Duggan to ignore that and continue as portraying the Fraternity as he had.
* SealedEvilInACan: Long dormant, the various destructive cosmic events of Cosmic Marvel start opening up the dimensions, allowing them to operate again.
* ThemeNaming: Appropriately, all named after things to do with birds (Talon, Razor, Gyre)
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[[folder:Talon]]
!!Talon
The first of the Fraternity to appear to Chris, when an alien robot crash lands in his backyard. Initially appearing as a mentor to the human, it soon turns out Talon's motives are not remotely what they seem.
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* DeadpanSnarker: He's got a dry wit, even in the face of Vulcan losing his temper at him.
-->'''Vulcan:''' I've killed men for saying less to me!\\
'''Talon:''' That may well explain the situation you're in, then.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Talon's not impressed by the current state of the Shi'ar, or by how some of their enemies have turned out. He remembers the insect lords of the Negative Zone being a lot more formidable.
* TricksterMentor: Starts by apparently helping Chris get a better handle on his armor, only for it to turn out this was so he could restore Razor and give Chris the boot.
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* NinetiesAntiHero: He has the name and look of one, but not the personality.
** This is actually addressed a couple times. In his first issue, one of the gangsters who attacks him briefly after gaining his powers dies accidentally and terribly; Chris reflects on this a lot over the course of his series.
*** When he muses in a very early issue that he should have killed Hobgoblin, Spider-Man punches him in the face.
*** He finds his father's journal a while later, wherein he talks about the time he and his partner saw a woman struck by a hit-and-run driver, and he decides to pursue the driver rather than get the woman to medical care. He takes this to heart for a while, attempting to follow in his footsteps to capture and punish criminals above and beyond taking care of their victims. Roughly midway through the series, he finds the page was stuck together, conveniently hiding the conclusion of the story: Chris's father calmed down, and they called an ambulance to save the victim's life. They lost the driver, but saved her.
** This is actually addressed a couple times. In his first issue, one of the gangsters who attacks him briefly after gaining his powers dies accidentally and terribly; Chris reflects on this a lot over the course of his series.
*** When he muses in a very early issue that he should have killed Hobgoblin, Spider-Man punches him in the face.
*** He finds his father's journal a while later, wherein he talks about the time he and his partner saw a woman struck by a hit-and-run driver, and he decides to pursue the driver rather than get the woman to medical care. He takes this to heart for a while, attempting to follow in his footsteps to capture and punish criminals above and beyond taking care of their victims. Roughly midway through the series, he finds the page was stuck together, conveniently hiding the conclusion of the story: Chris's father calmed down, and they called an ambulance to save the victim's life. They lost the driver, but saved her.
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* NinetiesAntiHero: He has the name and look of one, but not the personality.
** This is actually addressed a couple times. In his first issue, one of the gangsters who attacks him briefly after gaining his powers dies accidentally and terribly; Chris reflects on this a lot over the course of his series.
*** When he muses in a very early issue that he should have killed Hobgoblin, Spider-Man punches him in the face.
*** He finds his father's journal a while later, wherein he talks about the time he and his partner saw a woman struck by a hit-and-run driver, and he decides to pursue the driver rather than get the woman to medical care. He takes this to heart for a while, attempting to follow in his footsteps to capture and punish criminals above and beyond taking care of their victims. Roughly midway through the series, he finds the page was stuck together, conveniently hiding the conclusion of the story: Chris's father calmed down, and they called an ambulance to save the victim's life. They lost the driver, but saved her.
** This is actually addressed a couple times. In his first issue, one of the gangsters who attacks him briefly after gaining his powers dies accidentally and terribly; Chris reflects on this a lot over the course of his series.
*** When he muses in a very early issue that he should have killed Hobgoblin, Spider-Man punches him in the face.
*** He finds his father's journal a while later, wherein he talks about the time he and his partner saw a woman struck by a hit-and-run driver, and he decides to pursue the driver rather than get the woman to medical care. He takes this to heart for a while, attempting to follow in his footsteps to capture and punish criminals above and beyond taking care of their victims. Roughly midway through the series, he finds the page was stuck together, conveniently hiding the conclusion of the story: Chris's father calmed down, and they called an ambulance to save the victim's life. They lost the driver, but saved her.
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* CurbStompBattle: The Savage Steel armor had so many weapons that it could tear ordinary criminals to shreds. When it was targeted by ComicBook/IronMan because it was based on his stolen designs, the Savage Steel pilot was the one who got curbstomped.
* EvilKnockoff: The Cabal hired Stane International to construct the Savage Steel suit as their main weapon. Stane International based the Savage Steel armor on the Iron Man designs stolen from Tony Stark. When Tony tried to destroy all the armors based on his plagiarized designs during the Armor Wars saga, Savage Steel was one of his targets.
* PlagiarismInFiction: The Savage Steel armor was constructed based on designs that were originally stolen from Tony Stark. As Iron Man, Stark targeted Savage Steel along with all the other armors that were based on his designs.
* EvilKnockoff: The Cabal hired Stane International to construct the Savage Steel suit as their main weapon. Stane International based the Savage Steel armor on the Iron Man designs stolen from Tony Stark. When Tony tried to destroy all the armors based on his plagiarized designs during the Armor Wars saga, Savage Steel was one of his targets.
* PlagiarismInFiction: The Savage Steel armor was constructed based on designs that were originally stolen from Tony Stark. As Iron Man, Stark targeted Savage Steel along with all the other armors that were based on his designs.
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The character first appeared in ''Darkhawk'' #1 (March, 1991), created by Creator/TomDeFalco and Mike Manley. Chris Powell was an ordinary high school student who found a mysterious amulet which turned him into an armored hero. Darkhawk was original for its time in that the nature of his origin was planned out ahead of time but was kept secret until well into the series, resulting in a very gradual storyarc that lasted for years. The armor (as well as others just like it) were created by a [[SpacePirates space pirate]] named Dargin Bokk. The alien scientists who created the technology turned on Bokk and sent one of the last amulets to Earth to keep it out of the wrong hands. Chris found the amulet in an abandoned AmusementPark moments after finding out his father was a DirtyCop. It transported Chris' body to a dimension called Null Space and replaced it with an android body which used the amulet as a sort of GemHeart. Years later, Chris found that there were many more users of this technology and was separated from the Darkhawk armor.
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The character first appeared in ''Darkhawk'' #1 (March, 1991), created by Creator/TomDeFalco and Mike Manley. Chris Powell was an ordinary high school student who found a mysterious amulet which turned him into an armored hero. Darkhawk was original for its time in that the nature of his origin was planned out ahead of time but was kept secret until well into the series, resulting in a very gradual storyarc that lasted for years. The armor (as well as others just like it) were created by a [[SpacePirates space pirate]] {{Space Pirate|s}} named Dargin Bokk. The alien scientists who created the technology turned on Bokk and sent one of the last amulets to Earth to keep it out of the wrong hands. Chris found the amulet in an abandoned AmusementPark moments after finding out his father was a DirtyCop. It transported Chris' body to a dimension called Null Space and replaced it with an android body which used the amulet as a sort of GemHeart. Years later, Chris found that there were many more users of this technology and was separated from the Darkhawk armor.
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The apparent creator of the Darkhawk gem and a SpacePirate.
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The apparent creator of the Darkhawk gem and a SpacePirate.{{Space Pirate|s}}.
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* PoweredArmor: Darkhawk, though interestingly it's not actually placed on his body. Rather, his human body is stored in an ultimate dimension and replaced with the Darkhawk body.
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An identity used by several members of the Cabal, a corrupt group of police officers who prefer to kill criminals than catch them.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Broderick Bozin killed his and Allegra's mother in his early days as a serial killer. Allegra never told her father what really happened, partially because her mother was abusive, and partially to protect her brother.
* SpacePirates: The original idea behind the armors.
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* VigilanteMan: The original idea behind Savage Steel, a vigilante in powered armor sponsored by The Cabal, a group of vigilante cops wanting to use lethal force against criminals. It didnt work out.
* WouldHurtAChild: Serial killer Brodreick Bozin kills anyone who catches his fancy, including a child in a BaitAndSwitch cliffhanger that implied he killed Chris's brother Jason (he didn't).
* WouldHurtAChild: Serial killer Brodreick Bozin kills anyone who catches his fancy, including a child in a BaitAndSwitch cliffhanger that implied he killed Chris's brother Jason (he didn't).
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* VigilanteMan: The original idea behind Savage Steel, a vigilante in powered armor sponsored by The Cabal, a group of vigilante cops wanting to use lethal force against criminals. It didnt work out.
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** As mentioned above, Dargin Bokk was the original commisioner of the suits and wore a version himself,[[SpikesOfVillainy complete with plenty of spikes]].
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Christopher "Chris" Powell
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' The Powell, Falconer, Edge-Man
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}'' #1 (March, 1991)
!!! '''Team Affiliations:''' ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers
!!! '''Joined In:''' ''Avengers West Coast'' #94 (May, 1993)
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' The Powell, Falconer, Edge-Man
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}'' #1 (March, 1991)
!!! '''Team Affiliations:''' ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers
!!! '''Joined In:''' ''Avengers West Coast'' #94 (May, 1993)
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!!Lodestone
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!!!'''Alter Ego:''' Andrea Haggard
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Darkhawk'' #7, (September, 1991)
Hired by Phillipe Bazin to undergo an experiment, Andrea gained magnetic powers which she used as an operative against Darkhawk.
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* BaldOfEvil: Appears to be bald beneath her helmet.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster
* DarkActionGirl
* IBelieveICanFly: With electromagnetism.
* MagnetismManipulation: possesses the ability to manipulate magnetic force. She has proven able to levitate metallic-based objects, hurl such objects with great force, and bend or twist them into desired shapes.
* MostCommonSuperPower: Is noticeably well-endowed.
* MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about her past and how she obtained her powers.
* SecondaryColorNemesis: Her costume is green and purple.
* SelectiveMagnetism: Lodestone has the ability to magnetically manipulate the metal in the world around her including iron molecules that course through the human bloodstream.
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!!Mike Powell
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Chris Powell's father.
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* DirtyCop: He's in the pocket of mob boss Phillip Bazin.
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Chris Powell's father.
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Chris's mom.
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Chris's mom.
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!!Jason and Jonathan Powell
Chris's little twin brothers.
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Chris's little twin brothers.
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!!Phillip Bazin
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A local mob boss.
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A local mob boss.
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The apparent creator of the Darkhawk gem and a SpacePirate.
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The apparent creator of the Darkhawk gem and a SpacePirate.
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!! Darkhawk
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Christopher "Chris" Powell
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' The Powell, Falconer, Edge-Man
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}'' #1 (March, 1991)
!!! '''Team Affiliations:''' ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers
!!! '''Joined In:''' ''Avengers West Coast'' #94 (May, 1993)
In TheNineties, Creator/MarvelComics wanted to create a batch of fresh, hip superheroes to ring in the new decade. More often than not, this resulted in [[NinetiesAntiHero 90's anti-heroes]]. This included heroes such as [[ComicBook/SleepWalker Sleepwalker]], ComicBook/{{Cable}}, and more. Darkhawk was part of this batch and while his costume and name might suggest an AntiHero, his personality was more down to Earth, bringing a lot of realism to his character.
The character first appeared in ''Darkhawk'' #1 (March, 1991), created by Creator/TomDeFalco and Mike Manley. Chris Powell was an ordinary high school student who found a mysterious amulet which turned him into an armored hero. Darkhawk was original for its time in that the nature of his origin was planned out ahead of time but was kept secret until well into the series, resulting in a very gradual storyarc that lasted for years. The armor (as well as others just like it) were created by a [[SpacePirates space pirate]] named Dargin Bokk. The alien scientists who created the technology turned on Bokk and sent one of the last amulets to Earth to keep it out of the wrong hands. Chris found the amulet in an abandoned AmusementPark moments after finding out his father was a DirtyCop. It transported Chris' body to a dimension called Null Space and replaced it with an android body which used the amulet as a sort of GemHeart. Years later, Chris found that there were many more users of this technology and was separated from the Darkhawk armor.
Darkhawk's series lasted for 50 issues (March, 1991- April, 1995), most of them written by Danny Fingeroth. During this time, Darkhawk joined the ComicBook/NewWarriors and ComicBook/TheAvengers. Despite his early popularity, once his series was cancelled, he languished in ComicBookLimbo for years. He returned in various books including ''The Loners'' (a spinoff of a team that appeared in the pages of ComicBook/{{Runaways}}), [[CrossOver Marvel events]] such as ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' and more prominently ''ComicBook/WarOfKings''. He most recently appeared in ''Comicbook/AvengersArena'' and ''ComicBook/InfinityCountdown'' tie-in.
Not to be confused with Creator/ImageComics' ''ComicBook/{{Shadowhawk}}'', which had a similar nature and motif, but was an actual NinetiesAntihero.
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* AlienBlood: Darkhawk's is green.
* AncientConspiracy: The origin of the amulet is that it belongs to the Fraternity of Raptors, who were this for the Shi'ar Empire, until they were sealed away sixty-one thousand years ago, until the events of ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' started to wake them up.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: He fits under the ''Animal Alias'' type since there isn't a lot of hawklike things about him.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Chris's little twin brothers, Jason and Jon, are sometimes this to him, [[DownplayedTrope though in general they tend to get along more-or-less decently]], when Chris isn't being an AloofBigBrother to them.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Darkhawk got his name from a nearby hobo since he liked the name a lot better than his attempt at naming himself (Edge Man).
* ArtifactOfDoom: The amulets that give the users armor.
* BroughtDownToNormal: When we catch up to Chris in ''Darkhawk'' #51, his amulet no longer worked due to the events of ''War of Kings''. He kept the amulet, but decided to become a cop like his dad.
* CanonDiscontinuity: In his final issues, Darkhawk acquired a new suit of armor and new powers (including finally being able to fly on his own). The series was cancelled, Darkhawk disappeared for a few years and when he came back, he was back to his older design with none of his fancy new powers. Also, ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' sheds a new light as to the nature of Darkhawk's origins. [[spoiler:However, knowing that Talon was simply manipulating Chris now makes the canon even ''more'' uncertain than it was before.]]
* CanonWelding: Done in the ''Infinity Countdown'' tie-in with the original ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''. It's revealed that the Raptors were styled after Ratha'kon, a god with a similar appearance to the Hawk God that empowered Starhawk.
* CerebusRetcon: Not that Darkhawk was ever light and fluffy, but the revelation that Evilhawk--and by implication, Overhawk--were the armor taking temporary control for a brief period casts a darker pall over the appearances of both.
* ChestBlaster: He can fire forcefields and from his ChestInsignia.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Darkhawk is different from typical armored heroes in that his entire body is replaced by an android that is connected to the armor.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Each member of the Fraternity has a differently coloured visor, to help tell them apart.
* DarkIsEvil: The Fraternity.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Darkhawk's costume and name invokes this.
* DisappearedDad: Mike Powell disappeared the night Chris found the amulet, apparently out of shame for taking a bribe.
* DontTellMama: The night Chris found the amulet was also the night that he witnessed his police officer father [[DirtyCop taking a bribe from mob bosses]]. He tried to keep this information from his mother for years.
* EvilCounterpart: Since many suits were made, Darkhawk has encountered a few evil armor-users.
** As mentioned above, Dargin Bokk was the original commisioner of the suits and wore a version himself,[[SpikesOfVillainy complete with plenty of spikes]].
** There was a dimension-hopping mutant named Portal who used the destroyed remains of a suit of armor. Since the suit was in pieces, he couldn't use any of its powers but it didn't stop him from looking like an evil Darkhawk.
** [[spoiler:As revealed in ''War of Kings'', the ''entire'' Fraternity of Raptors is this to Chris. Given that their numbers rank in the ''thousands'', let's hope they don't all wake up at once.]]
* TheFaceless: Darkhawk himself. He once took off his helmet to see what his android body looked like. It was pretty traumatic for him although the reader was spared. This scene turned into a mild NothingIsScarier moment. [[spoiler:When he does this again in the ''ComicBook/MarvelLegacy'' one-shot, he can only muster an annoyed "Damn". We still don't get to see what he sees.]]
** In ''War of Kings'', it is stated that taking off his helmet and looking at what was beneath was his first step into the suit-induced insanity.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Chris has a nasty scar on his chest, most likely from where Chase ripped the amulet out during ''ComicBook/AvengersArena''.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Chris later found out that if he was wounded as Darkhawk, all he had to do was change back to his human form and the next time he used the armor, he was healed. This came in handy when the villain Tombstone [[BeatStillMyHeart tore his amulet/heart from his chest]].
* GrapplingHookGun: His suit came equipped with a grappling hook launcher, allowing him to send himself into the air and [[NotQuiteFlight glide with his wings]]. He later gained the ability to fly.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Chris, thanks to the events of ''War of Kings'', is believed to be responsible for the assassination of Empress Lilandra.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Early issues centered around Darkhawk trying to discover how his suit worked. By the time of ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'', he has a general idea of how to work it. Then he meets [[TricksterMentor Talon]].
* HumansAreSpecial: [[spoiler: In ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'', it is revealed that Chris's anger issues and psychotic episodes were the result of his suit. Because the humans are a young race, none of the suits can effectively integrate with them. Talon says this is a weakness, but a Skrull, stuck in the same position as Chris, says that it makes him special, allowing him not only to permanently resist the control of the Darkhawk armor, but to use the suit in ways Talon and Razor never could.]]
* {{Magitek}}: The true origin of the amulet and the armor. Technology powered by magic draining the life-force of anyone unfortunate enough to touch them.
* TheManBehindTheMan: A line in an issue of ComicBook/{{Nova}} implies the Fraternity of Raptors have one, but so far it hasn't been elaborated on.
* NinetiesAntiHero: He has the name and look of one, but not the personality.
** This is actually addressed a couple times. In his first issue, one of the gangsters who attacks him briefly after gaining his powers dies accidentally and terribly; Chris reflects on this a lot over the course of his series.
*** When he muses in a very early issue that he should have killed Hobgoblin, Spider-Man punches him in the face.
*** He finds his father's journal a while later, wherein he talks about the time he and his partner saw a woman struck by a hit-and-run driver, and he decides to pursue the driver rather than get the woman to medical care. He takes this to heart for a while, attempting to follow in his footsteps to capture and punish criminals above and beyond taking care of their victims. Roughly midway through the series, he finds the page was stuck together, conveniently hiding the conclusion of the story: Chris's father calmed down, and they called an ambulance to save the victim's life. They lost the driver, but saved her.
* OrganicTechnology: There is synthetic flesh under that suit, as well as blood. As mentioned, the amulet served as the android's heart as well.
* PoweredArmor: Savage Steel, The Seekers, and of course, Darkhawk himself.
* PowerUp: As Chris understood more about his armor, the more powers he discovered. As mentioned in the CanonDiscontinuity section above, these powers were quickly forgotten but the ''War of Kings'' gave him a different set of upgrades any way.
** Specifically, he gained the ability to switch between different armor modes, each of which had their own unique powers. And it's also hinted by both Talon and a Skrull that he hasn't even begun to unleash his full potential.
* RetCon: This happened HARD in ''War of Kings.'' While previously his armor had been the result of an alien crimelord's weapons development, ''War'' retconned pretty much everything about the Darkhawk amulet into being the result of his own mind's delusions wrestling with the mind control mechanisms in the amulet.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Mild examples. Both [[ComicBook/SpiderMan the Hobgoblin and Tombstone]] showed up in early issues as reoccurring villains. In fact, the Hobgoblin was the first super villain he faced. Later, [[ComicBook/XMen The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]] showed up quite a bit despite editors for X-Men comics being very picky about that sort of thing. Even later, ComicBook/{{Venom}}, of all people, developed a recurring feud with Darkhawk. Ironically, Darkhawk typically tended to have an easier time against Venom than Spider-Man did, possibly because Darkhawk wasn't psyched out by Venom the way Spidey was.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Broderick Bozin killed his and Allegra's mother in his early days as a serial killer. Allegra never told her father what really happened, partially because her mother was abusive, and partially to protect her brother.
* SpacePirates: The original idea behind the armors.
* SuperheroesInSpace: Eventually, the action went to space.
* SuperStrength: Darkhawk was initially around as strong as guys like ComicBook/SpiderMan but has had a significant increase in power.
* TameHisAnger: Due to incompatibility, the armor increases Chris's rage, meaning he often has to struggle to control it.
* ThemeNaming: The Fraternity all have names related to birds (Talon, Gyre, etc.).
* TookALevelInBadass: The ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' crossover showed Chris holding his own, without most of his armor powers, against the entire Starjammers crew, and a pissed off Gladiator.
* WhereItAllBegan: The ''ComicBook/MarvelLegacy'' one-shot has Chris return to the Happyland Amusement Park and regain control of his armor.
* VigilanteMan: The original idea behind Savage Steel, a vigilante in powered armor sponsored by The Cabal, a group of vigilante cops wanting to use lethal force against criminals. It didnt work out.
* WouldHurtAChild: Serial killer Brodreick Bozin kills anyone who catches his fancy, including a child in a BaitAndSwitch cliffhanger that implied he killed Chris's brother Jason (he didn't).
[[/folder]]
!The Powell Family
[[folder:Mike Powell]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grace Powell]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jason and Jonathan Powell]]
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!Criminals and Aliens
[[folder:Phillipe Bazin]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dargin Bokk]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:St. Johnny]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Savage Steel]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Darkhawk]]
!! Darkhawk
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Christopher "Chris" Powell
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' The Powell, Falconer, Edge-Man
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}'' #1 (March, 1991)
!!! '''Team Affiliations:''' ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers
!!! '''Joined In:''' ''Avengers West Coast'' #94 (May, 1993)
In TheNineties, Creator/MarvelComics wanted to create a batch of fresh, hip superheroes to ring in the new decade. More often than not, this resulted in [[NinetiesAntiHero 90's anti-heroes]]. This included heroes such as [[ComicBook/SleepWalker Sleepwalker]], ComicBook/{{Cable}}, and more. Darkhawk was part of this batch and while his costume and name might suggest an AntiHero, his personality was more down to Earth, bringing a lot of realism to his character.
The character first appeared in ''Darkhawk'' #1 (March, 1991), created by Creator/TomDeFalco and Mike Manley. Chris Powell was an ordinary high school student who found a mysterious amulet which turned him into an armored hero. Darkhawk was original for its time in that the nature of his origin was planned out ahead of time but was kept secret until well into the series, resulting in a very gradual storyarc that lasted for years. The armor (as well as others just like it) were created by a [[SpacePirates space pirate]] named Dargin Bokk. The alien scientists who created the technology turned on Bokk and sent one of the last amulets to Earth to keep it out of the wrong hands. Chris found the amulet in an abandoned AmusementPark moments after finding out his father was a DirtyCop. It transported Chris' body to a dimension called Null Space and replaced it with an android body which used the amulet as a sort of GemHeart. Years later, Chris found that there were many more users of this technology and was separated from the Darkhawk armor.
Darkhawk's series lasted for 50 issues (March, 1991- April, 1995), most of them written by Danny Fingeroth. During this time, Darkhawk joined the ComicBook/NewWarriors and ComicBook/TheAvengers. Despite his early popularity, once his series was cancelled, he languished in ComicBookLimbo for years. He returned in various books including ''The Loners'' (a spinoff of a team that appeared in the pages of ComicBook/{{Runaways}}), [[CrossOver Marvel events]] such as ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' and more prominently ''ComicBook/WarOfKings''. He most recently appeared in ''Comicbook/AvengersArena'' and ''ComicBook/InfinityCountdown'' tie-in.
Not to be confused with Creator/ImageComics' ''ComicBook/{{Shadowhawk}}'', which had a similar nature and motif, but was an actual NinetiesAntihero.
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!!Tropes:
* AlienBlood: Darkhawk's is green.
* AncientConspiracy: The origin of the amulet is that it belongs to the Fraternity of Raptors, who were this for the Shi'ar Empire, until they were sealed away sixty-one thousand years ago, until the events of ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' started to wake them up.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: He fits under the ''Animal Alias'' type since there isn't a lot of hawklike things about him.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Chris's little twin brothers, Jason and Jon, are sometimes this to him, [[DownplayedTrope though in general they tend to get along more-or-less decently]], when Chris isn't being an AloofBigBrother to them.
* AppropriatedAppellation: Darkhawk got his name from a nearby hobo since he liked the name a lot better than his attempt at naming himself (Edge Man).
* ArtifactOfDoom: The amulets that give the users armor.
* BroughtDownToNormal: When we catch up to Chris in ''Darkhawk'' #51, his amulet no longer worked due to the events of ''War of Kings''. He kept the amulet, but decided to become a cop like his dad.
* CanonDiscontinuity: In his final issues, Darkhawk acquired a new suit of armor and new powers (including finally being able to fly on his own). The series was cancelled, Darkhawk disappeared for a few years and when he came back, he was back to his older design with none of his fancy new powers. Also, ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' sheds a new light as to the nature of Darkhawk's origins. [[spoiler:However, knowing that Talon was simply manipulating Chris now makes the canon even ''more'' uncertain than it was before.]]
* CanonWelding: Done in the ''Infinity Countdown'' tie-in with the original ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''. It's revealed that the Raptors were styled after Ratha'kon, a god with a similar appearance to the Hawk God that empowered Starhawk.
* CerebusRetcon: Not that Darkhawk was ever light and fluffy, but the revelation that Evilhawk--and by implication, Overhawk--were the armor taking temporary control for a brief period casts a darker pall over the appearances of both.
* ChestBlaster: He can fire forcefields and from his ChestInsignia.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Darkhawk is different from typical armored heroes in that his entire body is replaced by an android that is connected to the armor.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Each member of the Fraternity has a differently coloured visor, to help tell them apart.
* DarkIsEvil: The Fraternity.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Darkhawk's costume and name invokes this.
* DisappearedDad: Mike Powell disappeared the night Chris found the amulet, apparently out of shame for taking a bribe.
* DontTellMama: The night Chris found the amulet was also the night that he witnessed his police officer father [[DirtyCop taking a bribe from mob bosses]]. He tried to keep this information from his mother for years.
* EvilCounterpart: Since many suits were made, Darkhawk has encountered a few evil armor-users.
** As mentioned above, Dargin Bokk was the original commisioner of the suits and wore a version himself,[[SpikesOfVillainy complete with plenty of spikes]].
** There was a dimension-hopping mutant named Portal who used the destroyed remains of a suit of armor. Since the suit was in pieces, he couldn't use any of its powers but it didn't stop him from looking like an evil Darkhawk.
** [[spoiler:As revealed in ''War of Kings'', the ''entire'' Fraternity of Raptors is this to Chris. Given that their numbers rank in the ''thousands'', let's hope they don't all wake up at once.]]
* TheFaceless: Darkhawk himself. He once took off his helmet to see what his android body looked like. It was pretty traumatic for him although the reader was spared. This scene turned into a mild NothingIsScarier moment. [[spoiler:When he does this again in the ''ComicBook/MarvelLegacy'' one-shot, he can only muster an annoyed "Damn". We still don't get to see what he sees.]]
** In ''War of Kings'', it is stated that taking off his helmet and looking at what was beneath was his first step into the suit-induced insanity.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Chris has a nasty scar on his chest, most likely from where Chase ripped the amulet out during ''ComicBook/AvengersArena''.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Chris later found out that if he was wounded as Darkhawk, all he had to do was change back to his human form and the next time he used the armor, he was healed. This came in handy when the villain Tombstone [[BeatStillMyHeart tore his amulet/heart from his chest]].
* GrapplingHookGun: His suit came equipped with a grappling hook launcher, allowing him to send himself into the air and [[NotQuiteFlight glide with his wings]]. He later gained the ability to fly.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Chris, thanks to the events of ''War of Kings'', is believed to be responsible for the assassination of Empress Lilandra.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Early issues centered around Darkhawk trying to discover how his suit worked. By the time of ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'', he has a general idea of how to work it. Then he meets [[TricksterMentor Talon]].
* HumansAreSpecial: [[spoiler: In ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'', it is revealed that Chris's anger issues and psychotic episodes were the result of his suit. Because the humans are a young race, none of the suits can effectively integrate with them. Talon says this is a weakness, but a Skrull, stuck in the same position as Chris, says that it makes him special, allowing him not only to permanently resist the control of the Darkhawk armor, but to use the suit in ways Talon and Razor never could.]]
* {{Magitek}}: The true origin of the amulet and the armor. Technology powered by magic draining the life-force of anyone unfortunate enough to touch them.
* TheManBehindTheMan: A line in an issue of ComicBook/{{Nova}} implies the Fraternity of Raptors have one, but so far it hasn't been elaborated on.
* NinetiesAntiHero: He has the name and look of one, but not the personality.
** This is actually addressed a couple times. In his first issue, one of the gangsters who attacks him briefly after gaining his powers dies accidentally and terribly; Chris reflects on this a lot over the course of his series.
*** When he muses in a very early issue that he should have killed Hobgoblin, Spider-Man punches him in the face.
*** He finds his father's journal a while later, wherein he talks about the time he and his partner saw a woman struck by a hit-and-run driver, and he decides to pursue the driver rather than get the woman to medical care. He takes this to heart for a while, attempting to follow in his footsteps to capture and punish criminals above and beyond taking care of their victims. Roughly midway through the series, he finds the page was stuck together, conveniently hiding the conclusion of the story: Chris's father calmed down, and they called an ambulance to save the victim's life. They lost the driver, but saved her.
* OrganicTechnology: There is synthetic flesh under that suit, as well as blood. As mentioned, the amulet served as the android's heart as well.
* PoweredArmor: Savage Steel, The Seekers, and of course, Darkhawk himself.
* PowerUp: As Chris understood more about his armor, the more powers he discovered. As mentioned in the CanonDiscontinuity section above, these powers were quickly forgotten but the ''War of Kings'' gave him a different set of upgrades any way.
** Specifically, he gained the ability to switch between different armor modes, each of which had their own unique powers. And it's also hinted by both Talon and a Skrull that he hasn't even begun to unleash his full potential.
* RetCon: This happened HARD in ''War of Kings.'' While previously his armor had been the result of an alien crimelord's weapons development, ''War'' retconned pretty much everything about the Darkhawk amulet into being the result of his own mind's delusions wrestling with the mind control mechanisms in the amulet.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Mild examples. Both [[ComicBook/SpiderMan the Hobgoblin and Tombstone]] showed up in early issues as reoccurring villains. In fact, the Hobgoblin was the first super villain he faced. Later, [[ComicBook/XMen The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]] showed up quite a bit despite editors for X-Men comics being very picky about that sort of thing. Even later, ComicBook/{{Venom}}, of all people, developed a recurring feud with Darkhawk. Ironically, Darkhawk typically tended to have an easier time against Venom than Spider-Man did, possibly because Darkhawk wasn't psyched out by Venom the way Spidey was.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Broderick Bozin killed his and Allegra's mother in his early days as a serial killer. Allegra never told her father what really happened, partially because her mother was abusive, and partially to protect her brother.
* SpacePirates: The original idea behind the armors.
* SuperheroesInSpace: Eventually, the action went to space.
* SuperStrength: Darkhawk was initially around as strong as guys like ComicBook/SpiderMan but has had a significant increase in power.
* TameHisAnger: Due to incompatibility, the armor increases Chris's rage, meaning he often has to struggle to control it.
* ThemeNaming: The Fraternity all have names related to birds (Talon, Gyre, etc.).
* TookALevelInBadass: The ''ComicBook/WarOfKings'' crossover showed Chris holding his own, without most of his armor powers, against the entire Starjammers crew, and a pissed off Gladiator.
* WhereItAllBegan: The ''ComicBook/MarvelLegacy'' one-shot has Chris return to the Happyland Amusement Park and regain control of his armor.
* VigilanteMan: The original idea behind Savage Steel, a vigilante in powered armor sponsored by The Cabal, a group of vigilante cops wanting to use lethal force against criminals. It didnt work out.
* WouldHurtAChild: Serial killer Brodreick Bozin kills anyone who catches his fancy, including a child in a BaitAndSwitch cliffhanger that implied he killed Chris's brother Jason (he didn't).
[[/folder]]
!The Powell Family
[[folder:Mike Powell]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Grace Powell]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jason and Jonathan Powell]]
[[/folder]]
!Criminals and Aliens
[[folder:Phillipe Bazin]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dargin Bokk]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:St. Johnny]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Savage Steel]]
[[/folder]]
