History Characters / MartianManhunter

* BaldOfAwesome: Bald and Awesome.

* EvilCounterpart: They represent everything wrong about the Green Martians as they use their natural powers and abilities to commit acts that would even leave most Green Martians to be horrified by what they do.

* TheCutie: Very cute and friendly.

* IntimateHealing: After an encounter with Cabal, J'onn had lost control of his body. As a last ditch effort, he asked Cha'rissa to body meld with him (basically the Martian version of sex) allowing her mental clarity to restore his. She lampshades this by saying:
-->''Next time, love, ask me to do something difficult.''

** PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Jemm becomes Cha'rissa's SecondLove, making the match this.

* DaddysGirl: When J'onn mind melds with her, he finds out she was closer to her father than with her mother. [[spoiler: He was assassinated for trying to initiate the peace treaty between his people and the Red Saturnians.]]
* TheDutifulDaughter: Her father was the one who initiated the peace treaty between the Saturnians, and following his death, she was deeply committed to carry out his dream.
* EvilMatriarch: Cha'rissa's mother, the White Queen of Saturn, is unwilling to submit to the arranged marriage and at one point threatens her daughter's life. [[spoiler:She is revealed to be the mastermind behind the plot to ruin the marriage and keep the conflict going between Whites and Reds.]]

* PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: This princess is no delicate flower. She turns into a ''Xenomorph-looking monster to kick ass''.
* StarcrossedLovers: She falls in love with J'onn, but they are forced to go separate ways since she is betrothed to J'emm and must rule her people, while he is a superhero.

** ''Characters/JusticeLeagueTheLeague'' [[note]]J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter[[/note]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' [[note]] note]]M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian, though John does appear as a statue in the future [[/note]]

* TheComicallySerious: Except during the Detroit era, when he became something of a DeadpanSnarker. Lampshaded by ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} during ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' of all things:

* ''Characters/YoungJustice''
** ''Characters/YoungJusticeJusticeLeague'' [[note]]J'onn J'onzz / John Jones / Martian Manhunter[[/note]]
** ''Characters/YoungJusticeTheTeamSeasonOne'' [[note]]M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian[[/note]]
** ''Characters/YoungJusticeOtherVillains'' [[note]]Despero, Ma'alefa'ak[[/note]]

* NiceGuy: He is one of the kindest and noble people on the planet. While he occasionally has his bouts of doubt with humankind and the universe as a whole, he's consistently characterized as a sober and steadfastly compassionate person. Despite being viciously tortured by White Martians, he ended up accepting M'gann M'orzz as his protege even after finding out about her heritage.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: A shapeshifting psychic who is nearly as strong as Superman, but this seems to be the standard for Green Martians, albeit that he was a trained police officer equivalent.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: A shapeshifting psychic who is nearly as strong as Superman, but this seems to be the standard for Green Martians.

[[folder: Zook]]

* AlliterativeName: '''M'''ichael "'''M'''ike" '''M'''iller.

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* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' [[note]]M'gann M'orzz / Megan Morse / Miss Martian [[/note]]

** ''Characters/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBoldProtagonists'' [[note]]J'onn J'onzz / John Jones / Martian Manhunter[[/note]]

** ''Characters/DCAUJusticeLeagueTheLeague'' [[note]]J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter[[/note]]

* ''Characters/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' [[note]]J'onn J'onzz / John Jones / Martian Manhunter, Despero[[/note]]

* ''Characters/TheBatman'' [[note]]J'onn J'onzz / John Jones / Martian Manhunter[[/note]]

* {{Telepath}}: Her main ability. Without it, she'd be totally incapable of communicating with the rest of the world.

* {{Archenemy}}: During the [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]], and retroactively, J'onn's entire Pre-Crisis career, being the one who started the war between the Desert Dwellers and Pole Dwellers, exiled J'onn to Earth, triggered the formation of the JLA, saw Martians ostracized on Earth, and finally, massacred everyone J'onn cared about, including his family. For all that his appearances were limited, Blanx's influence, and the effect that he had on J'onn, would be hard to top.
* TheBigBad: Of "And So My World Ends", the story that redefined ComicBook/MartianManhunter, creating the version of the character that we all know today.

* {{Archenemy}}: To J'onn in Post-Crisis continuity. While he's officially an enemy of the League as a whole, he truly despises J'onn and will go out of his way to kill him first whenever the League shows up. This is largely because J'onn is responsible for some of his more bitter and humiliating defeats, making him the one whom Despero, in his own words, "hates most of all." J'onn for his part fears and hates Despero right back, and the two have fought every few years from the 1960s into the present day, making them one another's longest running, most persistent, and most personal foes.

* {{Archenemy}}: The only contender during UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, he was one of J'onn's few recurring foes, and the first one he was shown to genuinely hate.

* BashBrothers: With Superman and {{Comicbook/Aquaman}} at various times.

* {{Nice Guy}}: He is one of the kindest and noble people on the planet. While he occasionally has his bouts of doubt with humankind and the universe as a whole, he's consistently characterized as a sober and steadfastly compassionate person. Despite being viciously tortured by White Martians, he ended up accepting M'gann M'orzz as his protege even after finding out about her heritage.

* GameFace: Basically the same race as J'onn, but not as powerful since Saturnians are a much weaker genetic offshoot to Martians. With that said, she almost always assumes a bestial form to fight her enemies. Her battle form resembles a [[{{Franchise/Alien}} Xenomorph]].

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: There are some who are not like them such as Miss Martian who is heroic and everything that is good about the Green Martians which she is friendly, kind and a {{Nice Girl}} as well unlike her people.

[[folder: White Martians]]
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* {{Aliens are Bastards}}: They are brutal and violent unlike their green cousins and most races in the universe as they like invading planets and killing people.
* {{Evil Counterpart}}: They represent everything wrong about the Green Martians as they use their natural powers and abilities to commit acts that would even leave most Green Martians to be horrified by what they do.

[[folder: White Martians]]
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* {{Aliens are Bastards}}: They are brutal and violent unlike their green cousins and most races in the universe as they like invading planets and killing people.
* {{Evil Counterpart}}: They represent everything wrong about the Green Martians as they use their natural powers and abilities to commit acts that would even leave most Green Martians to be horrified by what they do.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: There are some who are not like them such as Miss Martian who is heroic and everything that is good about the Green Martians which she is friendly, kind and a {{Nice Girl}} as well unlike her people.
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* DependingOnTheArtist: His appearance varies a ''lot''.

* YouNoTakeCandle: He has a tendency to skip articles and prepositions, as in "I know Manhunter okay."

** XRayVision: Has this,
DependingOnTheWriter.
* {{Nice Guy}}: He is one of the kindest and noble people on the planet. How compassionate is he? He accepts Miss Martian as one of his friends even though he found out that she is one of the White Martians who are violent and aggressive which makes them the opposite of his people that’s how.

* {{Nice Guy}}: He is one of the kindest and noble people on the planet. How compassionate is he? He accepts Miss Martian as one of his friends even though he found out that she is one of the White Martians who are violent and aggressive which makes them the opposite of his people that’s how.
** XRayVision: Has this, DependingOnTheWriter.