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Characters from Avenger of Steel. Unless mentioned, assume tropes related to their canon counterparts already apply.

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The Avengers

A team of superpowered individuals recruited by the peacekeeping agency S.H.I.E.L.D. to safeguard the planet Earth from threats, both alien and supernatural.

Clark Kent / Superman

The son of the Kryptonian scientist Jor-El, sent to Earth as an infant where he was raised by a couple of farmers in Kansas. One of the last surviving Kryptonians in the universe, Clark desires to use his powers for good and becomes the newest member of the Avengers.

Beware the Nice Ones: One of the kindest and most likable guys you can meet but he is the most powerful man on the planet and he won't hesitate to remind you of that if you push him.
Bizarre Alien Biology: Played for Laughs when Jessica declares she needs empowering speeches as much as he needs a third nut, then realizes Clark being an alien could mean he actually has three testicles (newsflash: it's not the case).
Big Brother Instinct: He develops this towards Jessica (especially when he finds out about Kilgrave) in the beginning and later on towards Raven (due to the Hand's inhumane treatment of her).
Brainwashed and Crazy: Briefly falls under Lorelei's thrall, who promptly puts him to work as her personal enforcer. He emerges rather traumatized from the experience.
Clark Kenting: Jessica is ripping her hair off when she watches him going out without nothing more than glasses, and nobody notices him.
Everyone Has Standards: As Superman, Clark Kent naturally tries to protect and save all lives, regardless of their criminal past or recent actions, but to date two cases have particularly pushed his limits; J. Jonah Jameson’s "vendetta" against superhumans is so frustrating Clark can’t imagine anyone with the patience necessary to put up with him long enough to work for him, and when he learns what Kilgrave did to Jessica, Clark reflects that he truly hates Kilgrave for causing so much emotional and psychological pain to Jessica that the man compromised her faith in herself to be a hero, while also reflecting that he didn’t even hate Zod or Lorelei that much.
The Dreaded: Criminals are absolutely terrified of Superman to the extent that they refuse to even say his name. Clark is actually a little uncomfortable with this as he doesn't want people to fear but Jessica assures him that only bad guys are afraid of him.
Hope Bringer: Arguably, Superman's greatest power isn't flight, super strength or laser eyes — it's his firm, infinite trust that people are good by essence and will rise to the challenge if needed. He believes it with such intensity that people around him cannot help but start to believe it too.
I Just Want to Be Normal: Not a regular part of his persona, but when having sex with Rogue (her ability still draining him but not to the fatal extent that it would have on others), Clark found he enjoyed the exertion he felt during their encounter, comparing it to how humans may enjoy intense exercise.
If I Wanted You Dead...: When Fury asks how they can trust Superman after Zod’s actions, Superman points out that if he was Earth’s enemy he could have already destroyed the Helicarrier without anyone present (including five of the Avengers, with the exception of Thor) able to stop him.
Kryptonite Factor: In contrast to the comics, where Superman is inherently vulnerable to magic, it is noted that any 'vulnerability' Clark has to magical attacks would just be due to the power of the spellcaster he'd be fighting. While kryptonite itself hasn't been introduced yet, as of Chapter 41 characters have begun to speculate that a suitably forged adamantium weapon could hurt him if it was deployed in the right manner, allowing for factors such as the need for such a weapon to be fast and large enough to make contact in the first place.
Lightning Bruiser: In addition to his incredible strength he is also insanely fast. Notable he was able to cross continents in minutes, break the sound barrier, and later managed to blitz Sif, one of the most skilled fighters Asgard has who is extremely fast herself, before she could react.
Loved by All: Superman is probably the most popular of the Avengers. While Clark is not very popular among governments or criminals most ordinary people seem to adore him. The people of New York (with the exception of J. Jonah Jameson) in particular love Superman as he has dramatically reduced crime in the city.
Momma's Boy: Clark is one of the most powerful superheroes on Earth who fought monsters, zombies, gods, and an actual Eastern Dragon but he still calls his Ma for advice.
Nice Guy: So nice that the real estate agent in Chapter 1 considers him a saint and it is the overall reason why he's liked by the majority of characters.
Patrick Stewart Speech: He has a gift for these. Snarkily commented upon by Jessica at one point.
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Superman basically adheres to this philosophy by personal preference, but he is willing to make a personal exception if he's sure there's no other choice, such as with Zod or Ao Shun, and will accept when his allies have to kill their foes as he trusts them enough to be sure that they'd only go that far if there was no other choice.
Unskilled, but Strong: Starts out like this, as Clark had no real martial arts skills but was so powerful that it didn't matter. This proved to be a problem in his fights with Zod and Faora, as they could match him physically and had greater experience. Later evolves into Strong and Skilled after getting combat training from Thor and Sif, gaining a respectable level of hand to hand experience.
World's Strongest Man: The most powerful of the Avengers. Only Hulk and Thor can compete with him, and he still has them beat in terms of speed and strength.

Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow

A former Russian assassin turned agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. turned Avenger, who is tasked with investigating the Kryptonian ship and it's disappearance, then the trail that she follows leads to her discovering Clark's existence.

Badass Normal: Somewhat. While she has no superpowers or high-tech suits like Iron Man, it's implied that the Red Room genetically enhanced her to a degree. She's still a normal human compared to some of the team's big heavy hitters.
Children Forced to Kill: The Red Room puts its operators on the field very young. When Sergei fondly remembers a pre-teen Natasha gunning down a room full of Mafiosi, Clark is clearly disturbed.
Composite Character: With the DCEU Lois Lane — she's a strong-willed redhead who investigates the mysterious alien and later becomes one of his closest allies.
Deuteragonist: Seems to be working out as this. After Clark, Natasha is the character in the story with the most focus and development.
Intergenerational Friendship: With former mob affiliate Sergei, whom she met in her days as a Red Room operative. His murder by the Hand makes her mad, and she later kills Madame Gao in his name.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Basically does this to Malekith when she shoots him with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Destroyer-based gun while he's ranting about his plans during the Convergence; as she points out to Steve, when someone admits they plan to destroy the universe, it's not necessary to hear their full speech.
The Tease: Seems to enjoy being this for Clark in particular, such as setting up a scenario where they apparently hire an escort as a couple just because she thought it would be funny to see his reaction or arranging for him to go to Tokyo on a photoshoot for lingerie models (while slipping him a photo of herself in such attire into the bargain).
Weak, but Skilled: Has no superpowers but is one of the most skilled fighters on Earth and allows her to take on opponents that badly outclass her.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She despairs of ever wiping the red in her ledger clean, only for Clark to assure that the mere fact she's trying to do better is already a lot.
You Remind Me of X: Deliberately invoked by the Red Room, which used her as their contact with Sergei for her superficial likeness to his daughter (who died young from pneumonia). He never treated her as a Replacement Goldfish, but they were both aware a part of his fondness for her came from said likeness.

Tony Stark / Iron Man

A genius, billionaire inventor who fights crime using a technologically advanced exoskeleton of his own design.

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: James Wesley's inner monologue grudgingly notes that while he's impulsive, rash, and childish, he's also brilliant and understands business like very few others.
Everyone Has Standards: Invoked when Tony reflects that if he finds Darcy Lewis "eccentric", she's really weird by anyone else's standards.
Hidden Depths: His constant childish pranking of Bruce is revealed to have actually been entirely calculated, rather than just a case of It Amused Me (though there was probably a bit of that in there too). As he points out, with evidence, Bruce has much more control of the Hulk than he realises.
Insufferable Genius: Well he is Iron Man, it goes without saying.
Locked Out of the Loop: Was out of town for most of the Daredevil arc, so he was understandably shocked and confused when he returns at the climax and finds an army of demonically-possessed people and a giant dragon attacking his tower.
The Team Benefactor: As well as funding the Avengers as a whole, Tony uses his connections to help other people; on Clark's recommendation, he hires Melvin Potter (who found a way to make Chitauri metals into clothing), gives Melvin's girlfriend and ex-parole officer Betsy a job as a security guard (both to protect them from Fisk's retaliation), and arranges for Ben Urich's wife to be put on an expensive drug trial that may be able to cure her disease.
Took a Level in Kindness: While Tony was obviously a hero already (though very arrogant and self-centered), Clark's example inspires him to pay more attention to the man on the street rather than just trying to protect everyone, to the extent that he takes a more active role in rebuilding New York after Zod's attack and develops the "Iron Hope" project, which consists of specialized armors intended to help rescue civilians after particular attacks.

Steve Rogers / Captain America

A veteran of World War II who was enhanced to peak physical perfection by an experimental super-soldier serum. After being frozen in ice at the end of the war, he has been reawakened in the modern world.

Determinator: When he's set on helping people, he'll run on foot through a blizzard to do so.
Fish out of Temporal Water: Steve is happy to see the world mainly evolved in the right way since the 40s, but confesses women are so forwards they freak him out.
Super Prototype: He was the first and most successful try by the United States to create a Super-Soldier. Every Weapon program afterward was a fruitless attempt to do it again, something he takes as a personal failing.

Thor Odinson

The prince of the Asgardian race who influenced the legend of the Norse god of thunder. Like Clark, he is not a being of Earth and has great knowledge of potential threats on the outside.

Big Eater: So much that in Chapter 40 Clark muses on how much Thor would need to eat before becoming fat.
Boisterous Bruiser: Very loud, very fight-happy and very friendly, that's Thor in a nutshell.
Dragged into Drag: The incident with Thrym. He's not very proud of it, so of course Loki gleefully reminds him of it in front of his friends and girlfriend.
I Thought Everyone Could Do That: He doesn't bring up things like the Infinity Stones or the existence of dragons because he assumed that they were "common knowledge" on Earth the way they are everywhere else.
Immortals Fear Death: He isn't actually afraid of dying himself, but Thor is shaken when he learns that Superman's human father died of a heart attack and what that means, as he had never considered that humans are so fragile that simply eating the wrong kind of food could be fatal to them.
Weather Manipulation: The Norse God of Storms.

Clint Barton / Hawkeye

A master archer and S.H.I.E.L.D. shadow operative who is Black Widow's best friend.

Ascended Fanboy: Invoked when Clint mentions that he was a fan of Battlin' Jack Murdock while fighting alongside Daredevil, leaving Matt to ponder the fact that an Avenger was a fan of his father.
Badass Normal: He and Natasha are the only members of the team that have no superhuman abilities or technologically advanced weaponry.
Crazy-Prepared: Keeps stashes of arrows hidden all over Avengers Tower, just in case, which comes in handy during the Hand's attack.

Bruce Banner / Hulk

A genius scientist specializing in gamma radiation who gained the ability to transform into a hyper-strong green monster after trying to replicate the serum that created Captain America.

Beware the Nice Ones: Bruce is quiet, very polite, and he can unleash a pissed off berserking monster whenever he wants.
Bruiser with a Soft Center: Despite the fact he is the Hulk, he calls Raven "Birdie Girl" very fondly and there is a part early on during the Black Zero Event where he protects Maria Hill from falling debris.
Commonality Connection: Develops this with Raven, due to the fact that both of their powers come from emotions and the very control of those powers.
Daddy Issues: Another point of commonality with Raven. As Brian Banner traditionally is an abusive fuck who outright murdered his wife for trying to protect their son, "a difficult relationship" is very much an understatement.
Man Bites Man: To be exact, Hulk Bites Alien; during the rematch with Nam-Ek, the Hulk is eventually reduced to biting his head, and still only 'wins' because his teeth broke Nam-Ek's helmet before his teeth broke.
Ship Tease: Maria Hill managing to calm the Hulk? Rather indicative.
Sword and Sorcerer: The Hulk's teamup with Raven has him as the Sword taking the fight to the Beast.
Tranquil Fury: His big secret — he's always angry. Raven openly marvels when she feels the bottomless pit of rage underneath his manners.

Superhuman Allies

The following possess their own range of superhuman abilities and have worked with members of the Avengers without actually being members of the team themselves.

Jessica Jones

A private investigator with superhuman strength who lives in the same apartment as Clark.

Composite Character: Can be compared to Batman, in the sense of basically being a street-level detective who Superman considers a close friend
Hates Everyone Equally: No matter your race, religion or handicap, Jessica will be a dick to you. Matt comments it's quite refreshing for once — annoying but refreshing.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jessica is a cynical drunk, but she still basically tries to do the right thing.
Lady Drunk: She imbibes alcohol so much that she needs Asgardian liquor to get properly drunk again.
Lady Swears-a-Lot: Unable to say a sentence without turning the air blue.
Like Brother and Sister: Her relationship with Clark quickly grows into this, even if neither of them have said it explicitly. Any suggestion of dating him is met with sheer disgust.
Secret Test of Character: Jessica basically passes one from Matt’s perspective when he learns that she wants to know the identity of the Masked Vigilante; while he feels that Jessica is a bit too blatant in her use of her own abilities, the fact that she knows Superman’s identity and hasn’t told anyone yet is enough to assure Matt that she can be trusted with his.
Trauma Button: Mind Control. She's driven into a fighting frenzy against Angel Dust when the latter gloats about putting her in a control collar, and joins the hunt for Lorelei after learning the Asgardian witch intends to reduce Clark to her obedient puppet.

The Ancient One

A mysterious, immortal woman and the current Sorcerer Supreme, who leads the Masters of the Mystic Arts in protecting the world from extra-dimensional forces.

Bald Mystic: She's the bald leader of the Masters of Mystic Arts, who introduces herself by putting a stop to a mind-controlled Superman using her mystical abilities.
Big Damn Heroes: Shows up just after Lorelei has taken control of Superman and is about to make him kill Natasha, Jessica, Sif and May.
Curbstomp Battle: While it costs her a great deal of effort, she takes both Lorelei and Superman while effectively fighting with one hand behind her back.
Good Is Not Soft: She makes clear that while she does genuinely want to help Rachel, if she proves too much of a threat as a Black Sky, then she will eliminate her.
Greater-Scope Paragon: As the Sorcerer Supreme, she watches over the Sanctums that protect the whole universe from extra-dimensional threats.
Ms. Exposition: Regarding sorcery and its rules, she's there to explain them to Clark.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Potentially applies; her use of the Time Stone has attracted the attention of Mr. Mxyzptlk, but compared to the threat of a mind-controlled Superman, the aforementioned imp isn’t quite as dangerous.
Not So Omniscient After All: She bluntly confesses the possible futures she can see are infinite, and have the same chance of happening or not. So peering into the future does help her to plot, but not as much as you would believe.
Seers: The Eye of Agamotto allows her access to an infinity of potential futures.
Strong and Skilled: While she doesn't have the raw power to oppose Superman and Lorelei together, individually, she outclasses either. When fighting them, she's handicapped by not wanting to hurt Superman, but she's very much able to think on her feet and has the advantage of the Time Stone to compensate.

Matt Murdock / Daredevil

A blind lawyer who lives a double life as a vigilante fighting crime in Hell's Kitchen.

Arbitrary Skepticism: Stick roasts him for refusing to believe in dragons in spite of having a genuine alien in his apartment.
Badass Normal: Yes, he has Super-Senses, but the fighting skill is all him.
Black-and-White Morality: He would like for Wilson Fisk to be nothing but a monster, and is pretty distressed and confused to learn it's not the case.
Child Soldiers: He refers to himself as such after Stick admits he was training Matt to join the Chaste and fight the Hand.
Commonality Connection: He's surprised to learn Superman too struggled with his Super-Senses, and later invokes this by declaring both of them are driven by the need to stop the crimes they have no choice but hear.
Composite Character: Like Jessica, Matt's dynamic with Clark borrows heavily from Batman, as a nocturnal Terror Hero with a stringent moral code and a rather antagonistic relationship with Superman.
Friend to All Children: He's horrified and turns against Stick when his mentor shoots Raven, a frightened teenage girl.
Good Is Not Nice: Matt really wants to do good, and for this he's hurting criminals to the point people fear he's going to kill them. Also, he had no compunctions about letting a Russian mook believe he would use a chainsaw on him.
Handicapped Badass: Blind as a bat. Kicking all the ass.
Religious Bruiser: A genuine Catholic struggling to reconcile his fight with his faith.
Shipper on Deck: He's beaming at Foggy and Karen when they're kissing in front of him.
Worthy Opponent: Madame Gao praises his skills as he's fighting her, right after helping to repel an army made of the Hand's foot-soldiers under Demonic Possession.

Rachel "Raven" Roth / Black Sky

A teenage sorceress from the realm of Azarath and one of the many "Black Skies", a caste of human/demon hybrids sired by the entity Trigon.

Anti-Anti-Christ: She openly describes her mother as the Church of Blood's Mary of Nazareth, and confesses Trigon sired her with the intent for her to become a powerful lieutenant of his and his bridge towards Earth. She promptly rejected him, and her destiny with him.
Apocalypse Maiden: Her losing control of her powers would utterly destroy the realm she's currently inhabiting. She accidentally became one for Azarath, and secretly fears repeating the performance on Earth.
Bad Powers, Good People: The poster girl. Her dad is basically Satan and she inherited all the powers coming with the status of Antichrist, yet she helps the Avengers.
Beware the Nice Ones: Raven is usually a nice girl but as the Beast of the Hand finds out, she can be brutal when pushed too far.
Black Magician Girl: Her demonic blood endows her with powerful magic. It allows her to fight the Beast of the Hand with the Hulk's assistance.
Child by Rape: If poor Angela Roth first consented to bear Trigon's child, the fact that his mere presence shattered her sanity makes the ensuing sex quite iffy. The cherry on the top, he really wasn't gentle with her.
Child of Two Worlds: Technically three as she's half-demon, but she actively rejects this part of her inheritance and mainly defines herself by her human blood and her raising in Azarath.
Deadpan Snarker: With particular emphasis on the 'deadpan' part.
Death Seeker: Downplayed. Raven isn't actively suicidal, but she feels it would be best for her to die if she becomes too dangerous. Superman gently tries to break her out from the mindset.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She's naturally very pale, to the point she actually looks sickly, with very black hair. Couple that with the dark powers, her emotionless behavior and troubled past and she's eerie alright.
Emotionless Girl: Raven has emotions but she has been taught to keep them under control to keep Trigon from controlling her.
The Empath: Raven's primary ability is to sense and manipulate emotions, allowing her to amplify the Hulk's rage to help them stop the Beast of the Hand.
Half-Human Hybrid: Her mother was a regular human and her father a multidimensional demon lord.
I Hate You, Vampire Dad: There's no word powerful enough to express how much she loathes Trigon. She would actually enjoy killing him, and is currently doing her best to foil his attempt of conquering Earth.
Odd Friendship: Bruce Banner is a man of science who needs to get angry to fight while Raven is a part demon who uses magic and works very hard to keep her emotions under control. They bond over both having abusive fathers.
Only Known by Their Nickname: She favors being called Raven instead of Rachel.
Sword and Sorcerer: Teaming up with the Hulk to fight the Beast has her as the Sorcerer, since she's a Black Magician Girl who also serves as The Medic by empowering the Hulk with her empathy.
Trademark Favourite Food: She declares loving waffles more than life itself.
Unskilled, but Strong: Raven has enormous amounts of magical power but has relatively little combat training in regards to using them. Though now that she is training with the Ancient One that is likely to change.

Stick

A blind martial arts master who mentored Matt and is a member of a secret society known as the Chaste.

Handicapped Badass: His blindness doesn't prevent him from taking the fight to the Hand.
Hate Sink: So far none of the heroes who have dealt with Stick has a positive opinion of him.
Hypocrite: Insults Matt for not understanding the stakes involved even though as Matt’s teacher it was his duty to inform him.
Jerkass Has a Point: He's not exactly wrong about the threat of the Black Sky, even if they mean no harm.
Knight Templar: Insists he knows best and is doing the most for the sake of the world even as he tramples anything resembling morality.
Old Soldier: His whole life was spent fighting the Hand.
Sir Swears-a-Lot: Almost as much as Jessica.
The Unfettered: Will do anything to stop the Hand including trying to murder a 15 year old girl.

Alflyse

The former queen of the Dark Elves who is unhappy with the dogmatic, self-destructive path that Malekith is leading her people towards.

Adaptational Heroism: Her presence downplays this trope for the Dark Elves as whole, showing that they are not Always Chaotic Evil.
Combo Platter Powers: On top of having the Dark Elves' natural superhuman strength, durability, and longevity, Alflyse now has the powers of a Kryptonian and a Klyntar after bonding with the Solar symbiote, which previously bonded with Clark.
Even Evil Has Standards: She is just as hateful and bitter towards Asgard and Krypton as any member of her kind, but even she thinks the direction that Malekith is taking is too much.
Heel–Face Turn: Her time with Clark shows her just how wrong Malekith's goals are, leading her to turning against him and the rest of her kind.
Heel Realization: After spending centuries telling herself that the Dark Elves’ actions are justified in the name of saving their species, Alflyse realizes that they have lost any right to ‘win’ after hearing how Clark killed the only other known member of his species in order to save another race.
Heroic Sacrifice: She tries to sacrifice herself to save Clark, Sif, and Frigga on Morag from the Klyntar. It is ultimately for nothing, as she survives the sacrifice attempt and ends up becoming a host to a vengeful symbiote.
Redemption Equals Death: Alflyse seemingly achieves this when she stays behind to fight off the Klyntar, with this act helping Sif recognize that not all Dark Elves are pure monsters.
Redemption Failure: Alflyse falls victim to this when she is forcibly taken as a host by the symbiote that briefly bonded to Clark.

Civilian Allies

The following are all close allies of Superman, the Avengers, or their other superhuman allies without possessing any exceptional powers or skills themselves (which is not to say that they are not remarkable in their own right).

Martha Kent

Clark's widowed, adopted mother.

Almighty Mom: Martha won't let anything that happens to her because of her son's life phase her. When the Black Widow tracks Clark back to Smallville, Martha invites the Avenger and assassin for tea and tells her about Clark's childhood, and she's willing to stand up to Zod's forces despite being hopelessly outmatched.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Showing your guest pictures of your son in a duck costume? Yup, she fits.
Good Parents: As in canon, Martha is a supportive parent for her adopted son.
Manipulative Bitch: A very benign yet effective one. Inviting the Black Widow for pie and ice cream and discussing her alien son's childhood with embarrassing pictures humanizes Clark to the point Natasha is open to see him as an ally first. As Natasha notes, it's not exactly subtle, but it is very effective.
Muggle Foster Parents: Martha and her deceased husband, Jonathan, had no powers and managed to raise the man who has become potentially the most powerful being on the planet.
Supreme Chef: To the point where Natasha, the utterly self-disciplined Black Widow, over-eats and Jessica's moans of appreciation at the taste of her food are mistaken by Trish for something rather lewder.

Patricia "Trish" Walker

Jessica's adopted sister and the host of the successful radio talk show Trish Talk.

Abusive Parents: Her mother Dorothy was this to her growing up. She expresses envy over the loving relationship Clark has with his mother.
Former Child Star: She was once the star of a teen sitcom called "It's Patsy", a part of her life that she reviles and works hard to forget.
Morality Pet: Apart from Clark, Trish is the only person that Jessica shows any genuine care or outright compassion towards.
Secret-Keeper: Due to her relationship with Jessica, Trish is the only normal civilian besides Martha that knows Clark is Superman (everyone else who knows the secret either has powers of their own or is a direct associate of the Avengers, such as Pepper, Jane and Darcy).
Ship Tease: She is quite attracted to Clark, and there are hints that this is mutual, but nothing has come of it.

Stephen Strange

A skilled but highly arrogant neurosurgeon working at Metro-General Hospital.

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In front of Clark's blatant incredulity that such an ass is working in the hospital, Claire confesses that for all his flaws, Strange is an excellent surgeon.
Dramatic Irony: Clark uses his abilities to identify an old bullet-wound causing pain to a patient, and Strange dismisses Clark's joking suggestion that he used magic to spot the wound.
Dr. Jerk: Already brusque and dismissive towards Clark, he becomes outright sneering when the latter claims he's a wizard and commands Claire to make him leave.
Early-Bird Cameo: Strange appears as a standard surgeon Clark meets at a hospital, long before he joins the Masters of the Mystic Arts.

Pepper Potts

Tony Stark's girlfriend, former assistant, and current CEO of Stark Industries.

Covert Pervert: Is rather... distracted when she watches Thor and Clark wrestling in a spar.
Deadpan Snarker: Usually at Tony's expense.
Only Sane Woman: Of anyone in Tony's general orbit.
Spit Take: Spits out the water she'd taken to try and calm down when she sees video footage of Stark Tower filled with the bodies of dead demon-possessed humans.
What Does She See in Him?: She occasionally wonders why she's dating Tony - Character Development or not, the engineer still tends to be quite the self-centered, insensitive jackass.

Doctor Jane Foster

Thor's girlfriend and a doctor in astrophysics.

Celebrity Paradox: When the Avengers are watching the Star Wars prequels, Thor explicitly compares Padme Amidala to Jane (although he insists that Jane is more beautiful).
Closest Thing We Got: When the Kryptonian scout-ship was discovered, Jane Foster was contacted as the closest thing Earth has to an 'expert' in alien encounters as she has made peaceful contact with Thor, even if analysing alien technology is far outside of her expertise.
Living MacGuffin: She spends some time as the unwilling host of the Aether.

Darcy Lewis

A political sciences student who ended up as Jane's assistant (albeit when no actual science students applied for the role).

Ascended Fangirl: Is a very enthusiastic fan of Superman, to the point that she's written a long fan fiction pairing him with Faora (although she basically ignores his pleas to stop writing it and attempts to correct her about Kryptonian society).
Covert Pervert: Clark is particularly disturbed when he learns that Darcy is writing erotic fanfic pairing him off with Faora of all people; the latest chapter features Superman and Thor fighting each other to be the "alpha" despite Clark insisting that Kryptonian society was nothing like that.
Cloudcuckoolander: Darcy is so odd at times that even Tony Stark thinks she's eccentric (which as he notes, is really saying something).

Frederick "Foggy" Nelson

Matt's best friend and fellow lawyer.

Anger Born of Worry: How he reacts to Matt's devilish antics.
Fanboy: He's basically squeeing with all his might every time he interacts with the Avengers.
Muggle Best Friend: To Matt Murdock.
Relationship Upgrade: He starts to date Karen Page following the assault on the Avengers Tower.

Karen Page

Officially the office manager for Nelson & Murdock, Karen helps draw the Avengers into her investigation when she asks Clark Kent for help.

Entertainingly Wrong: Karen briefly thinks that Clark is the Masked Man.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Karen learns of Superman's attack on the Hand's bases in New York, she assumes that Clark made the Avengers aware of the situation because he met them while covering a story, rather than realising that he's Superman himself.
Ship Tease:
- To provide a cover for their hour-long talk, Clark suggests that Karen throw water in his face and storm off to give the impression that they had a bad date, but instead Karen gives him a passionate kiss and says that they have to do this again.
- Moves past this to the point that she starts dating Foggy after the Siege of Avengers Tower.

Ben Urich

A reporter for the New York Bulletin who puts Karen in touch with Clark when she's trying to investigate Union Allied.

Composite Character: Downplayed. He acts as a pseudo-equivalent to Perry White, Clark's employer at the Daily Planet.
Cool Old Guy: He retains a reputation as a reporter despite his age.
Knight in Sour Armor: His age and his darker life experiences still affect his view on the impact his investigations have made, but Clark's own efforts inspire him enough to put Karen in touch with Clark.
Spared by the Adaptation: Due to pointing Karen in Clark's direction, rather than working with her in her investigation into Union Allied, Urich survives.

Melvin Potter

Originally a personal tailor for Fisk's organization, Potter was rescued by Clark, Matt and Jessica and given a new job at Stark Industries.

Almighty Janitor: A literal example; he originally worked as a janitor for Hammer Industries, but was fired after he managed to find a way to work with Chitauri material when he was working in the labs after hours when none of the scientists could crack the problem.
Forced into Evil: Was forced to work for Fisk after being fired from Hammer Industries.
Idiot Savant: Melvin Potter may suffer from some kind of mental handicap, but he managed to find a way to use salvaged Chitauri tech to make bulletproof clothing and is the first person to recognize Clark Kent as Superman on their first meeting.
Not So Stoic: Melvin's calm manner shifts to anger when he starts talking about how Fisk threatened Betsy, his former parole officer, to get Melvin to work for him.
Too Dumb to Fool: While dumb may not necessarily be the right term, it's heavily implied that his handicap is part of why he saw through Clark's disguise so easily.

Asgardians

A race of god-like humanoids with magical powers and advanced technology. They are reputed across the galaxy as peacekeepers, and inspired the gods and lore of Norse mythology.

Odin

Thor's father and the king of Asgard, who works to maintain peace and order in the Nine Realms.

The Good King: He's a bit gruff, and occasionally harsh, but he's a good and wise ruler.
Underestimating Badassery: He judges Loki down to a tee... except for missing one little illusion. That dagger? It wasn't a dagger.

Frigga

Thor's mother and the queen of Asgard.

The High Queen: For Asgard.
Mentor Archetype: She was the previous Sorcerer Supreme before the Ancient One, who Frigga herself trained.
Spared by the Adaptation: Superman managed to save her from the Dark Elves though she is currently in a coma.
Worthy Opponent: Earns Alflyse's respect when she reveals that she spent time exploring their realm by herself after the battle against Bor, although Frigga downplays how courageous it was when she believed all the residents were dead.

Sif

One of the few female Asgardian warriors and Thor's childhood friend.

Fantastic Racism: Sif is initially this towards the Dark Elves, believing them to be honorless, irredeemable monsters. Fighting alongside Alflyse on Morag proves her otherwise.
Friends with Benefits: With Clark. They're friends who have slept together but don't seem to be heading towards a full Relationship Upgrade.
The Immodest Orgasm: The reason why the myths describe her as Thor's wife was the fact she dated him for a while, and post-battle "celebrations" really weren't from the discreet kind.
Jerkass Realization: Has one after spending time with Alflyse helps her see that tarring all Dark Elves with the same brush is unfair. While Sif is still resolved to fight Malekith's plan, she makes it clear that she is distinguishing between killing the Dark Elves to stop Malekith's plan and killing them just because of what they are.

S.H.I.E.L.D.

An international peacekeeping organization that safeguards the world from supernatural threats. They were responsible for the formation of the Avengers.

Colonel Nick Fury

The director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the one who initially brought the Avengers together to combat the threat of Loki and the Chitauri.

Reasonable Authority Figure: Is willing to let the Avengers and Superman handle things, rather than going along with the World Security Council's more bullheaded approach.
Running Gag: The Avengers worrying about him having a fit or aneurysm regarding the latest crisis and how insane it is.

Commander Maria Hill

Nick Fury's second-in-command.

Ship Tease: Maria Hill managing to calm the Hulk? Rather indicative, especially in light of her comments about him being a good man and encouraging him to seek out Betty, which he refuses, responding with the telling line, "it's hard to love someone who doesn't love himself."

Agent Phil Coulson

An experienced agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., who is somehow alive despite being killed by Loki.

Open Secret: Natasha notes that she and Clint are already aware that Coulson isn't dead, and she considers it likely that Stark and Bruce know as well (Stark because he knows how to hack computers and Bruce because Stark would have told him), although she acknowledges that Steve and Thor probably still don't know.

X-Men

A team of mutants brought together by Professor Charles Xavier to help young mutants learn how to control their powers and protect humanity from less benevolent mutants.

Professor Charles Xaver

The wheelchair-bound, telepathic leader of the X-Men.

Team Dad: The respect that Rogue and Kitty have for him when they talk about him makes this clear.

Scott Summers / Cyclops

The X-Men's field leader, who has the power to project beams of concussive light from his eyes. However, he cannot control this power and must wear ruby quartz eyewear to block out the beams.

Not So Similar: When Rogue manifests Clark's heat vision, she compares it to Scott's own eye-beams, but notes that Clark's power actually hurts and probably can't be blocked by Cyclops' ruby quartz glasses.

Ororo Munroe / Storm

A premier member of the X-Men with a near-godlike control over Earth's weather patterns.

Piotr Rasputin / Colossus

A Russian mutant who can cover his body with an indestructible organic metal.

Logan / Wolverine

A mutant and war veteran with retractable claws and a super-advanced healing factor that essentially grants him immortality. Due to an experiment, his entire skeleton was coated in adamantium, increasing his durability.

Healing Factor: His healing factor allowed him to survive having his entire skeleton covered in adamantium.
Knight in Sour Armor: He organises harsh training sessions for the rest of the team and expects them to obey his orders, but is still a good man despite his rough-around-the-edges personality.

Kitty Pryde

A young mutant girl who can move through solid objects.

Beware the Nice Ones: She dealt with a Silver Samurai by phasing a pencil within his arm — it completely destroyed his bone and tendons.
Brainy Brunette: Kitty apparently deals with the computer security systems for the school (with the unfortunate consequence that she has seen the others' internet history).
Intangible Girl: She can phase through solid objects, demonstrating this to Clark by sticking her arm through a nearby wall.
Secret Secret-Keeper: After the events in Japan, she realizes that Clark is Superman, but hasn't told him yet.

Rogue

A southern mutant who has the power to absorb the life energies and (in the case of superhumans) powers of others through touch.

Blessed with Suck: As always, given her inability to control her powers.
Covert Pervert: Based on Kitty's comments about Rogue's online history, she has somewhat weird erotic tastes.
Friends with Benefits: After the crisis at Yashida is over, Rogue asks Clark for at least one night of sex with someone she can't hurt.
Good Thing You Can Heal: After Rogue is nearly killed by a bomb, Clark lets her absorb his abilities again so that she can heal from the damage.
No-Sell: When Rogue makes contact with Clark, she doesn't actually hurt him when she drains some of his energy as he's so powerful, he doesn't notice.
Power Copying: A few moments' contact with Clark gives Rogue most of his powers and snippets of his memories; she reflects that she'd probably have more trouble coping with the situation if it wasn't night (thus limiting the amount of energy she possesses herself) and she hadn't gained enough of Clark's memories to better understand how to cope with his abilities.

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

A German mutant with the power of teleportation who resembles a blue, devil-like creature.

Nice Guy: Logan observes that Kurt is one of the friendliest people he's ever met, despite the man's more physically obvious mutation.

Spyke

A mutant who can produce wooden spikes from his body.

Hank McCoy / Beast

A brilliant scientist with a drastic physical mutation, giving him a blue, furry beast-like appearance.

Genius Bruiser: Looks like a large blue gorilla but is recognised by Logan as basically the smartest man he's ever met.

Laura Kinney / X23

A young, female clone of Wolverine.

Clone Angst: As always, she's troubled by the knowledge that she's basically Logan's clone.
Healing Factor: The main reason why she was cloned by Yashida. Her healing is so powerful that a bomb explosion, which by the way she put it inside her, caused her to be blown up in two pieces (the upper half of the body and the lower half), didn’t even bother her that much. She just dragged herself towards the lower half and instantly reattached herself. The downside, that is for those who wanted her super healing, is that it's lethal to anyone but herself.
Not So Stoic: Doctor Rice verbally abuses and physically tortures her but only manages to make her twitch when he starts insulting Sarah Kinney.
Race Lift: Laura in the comics is pure Caucasian. This version is half-Japanese.
Self-Made Orphan: Doctor Rice takes great satisfaction in revealing how he provoked Laura's attack on her mother, Sarah Kinney.

Zod's Faction

A rogue faction of Kryptonian soldiers who attempted to stage a coup of Krypton before it's destruction.

General Dru-Zod

The vicious, dogmatic general of the Kryptonian military, and the first enemy that Clark and the Avengers faced together.

Arc Villain: For the story's first arc.
Crippling Overspecialization: The Jor-El hologram describes Zod as suffering from this, as Zod is automatically thinking of the repopulation of Krypton in terms of a military operation where he has to conquer territory and defeat an "enemy" because he’s psychologically incapable of considering alternative diplomatic methods.
Flying Brick: Finally graduates to this at the end of the arc.
I Did What I Had to Do: Zod maintains this as his defense for his actions on Krypton, but Superman constantly disagrees.
Master Race: The main attitude of Zod's forces and Zod himself, to the point that he rants about mounting a campaign of conquest against Asgard itself once Krypton has been re-established.

Sub-Commander Faora-Ul

Zod's second-in-command.

Curb-Stomp Battle: Faora single-handled takes down Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye and the Hulk in her first attack on Earth.
The Dragon: To Zod, as per canon.
Draco in Leather Pants: In-Universe example with Faora: The Path to Atonement, in which Darcy Lewis makes her fall in love with Superman. Clark is horrified, the Avengers are variously amused and bemused, and the Internet entertained.

Nam-Ek

A very large and burly Kryptonian soldier serving under Zod.

Drama-Preserving Handicap: Basically applies; during his attack on the Helicarrier, Nam-Ek only fights the Hulk on the ground rather than flying. Of course, given that Zod only figured out how at the very end of his fight with Clark and was truly exceptional, it's possible that he couldn't.

The Hand

An ancient organisation, so secretive that even S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't believe they existed at first, with various supernatural contacts and influences.

Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk

A mob boss who seeks to bring peace and order to Hell's Kitchen through crime, and has forged an uneasy alliance with the Hand to do so.

Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Matt is completely flabbergasted to realize that Fisk genuinely loves and is loved by Vanessa Marianna.
Karma Houdini Warranty: Once evidence is found that Fisk helped smuggle a very large and destructive dragon into the middle of New York, absolutely no one is inclined to defend him regardless of how many charities he donated to or how much political influence he used to have.
Likes Clark Kent, Hates Superman: He publicly and effusively thanks Matt Murdock for rescuing Vanessa from a murder attempt (even grabbing him in a bear-hug), while he loathes Daredevil for ruining his attempt to seize control of New York.
Manipulative Bastard: At Vanessa's instigation, he uses his knowledge of the Hand's locations and Superman's personality to turn the latter against the former. As Clark irritably notes, it works like a charm.
Never My Fault: A rare case of a villain being exactly right about this — the Hand blames him for Superman intercepting Black Sky, which was something far beyond his control.
Villain with Good Publicity: Successfully invokes this to avoid arrest after the Avengers capture his accountant. Too bad for him that evidence is later found that he helped smuggle a massive and dangerous dragon into the middle of New York.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He likes to think he's the man who will restore New York City to its former beauty. However, the ways he picks to achieve this goal are very much distasteful to the heroes.

Madame Gao

One of the leaders of the Hand, an ancient clan of martial artists who seek to achieve permanent immortality through supernatural means.

Always a Bigger Fish: On the receiving end, as her master dragon dismisses and threatens her in a vision for failing him.
Death by Adaptation: She's killed in the siege of the Avengers Tower, which takes place during the equivalent of Daredevil Season 1, whereas canonically she lasted until the climax of The Defenders.
Evil Old Folks: Her methods involve maiming and slavery, and she's quite ancient indeed.
Never Mess with Granny: A very elderly woman who is capable of holding her own against Jessica Jones, Hawkeye, Daredevil, and Black Widow at the same time.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Gao needs to take a blow from Natasha's Widow's Bite, Jessica's Thanagarian mace, Matt's new billy clubs, and one of Hawkeye's explosive arrows to do enough damage to put her down, and even then she's still alive until Natasha cuts off her head.
Villain Respect: She admires and praises her opponents' fighting skills, even regretting the fact that Natasha isn't part of the Hand.

Nobu Yoshioka

A high-ranking member of the Hand working with Wilson Fisk.

Death by Adaptation: He's Killed Off for Real during the dock fight, which is during the equivalent of Daredevil Season 1. In canon, he lasted until Season 2 before being finished off for good.
Eye Scream: During his fight with Matt, a glass shard is driven into his eye.
Karmic Death: Gets crushed to death by Raven, the girl he kept locked up and regularly took blood from against her will.

Solomon Grundy

An undead monster that can regenerate from his own severed limbs and has strength and durability that have given even Superman problems.

Adaptive Ability: Part of what makes Solomon Grundy so dangerous is that when he's damaged, the Grey repairs him, making the bones denser and tougher. It's unclear how completely destroying his body affects this, but he's currently strong enough to send Superman flying. Clark eventually decides to dismember Grundy and hand the pieces over to the Masters of The Mystic Arts so that he can't just regenerate elsewhere stronger than ever.
Dumb Muscle: Grundy is strong enough to injure Superman in a fight, but never shows any sign that he is intellectually capable of doing anything more than roaring and hitting things.
Resurrective Immortality: It would appear that this applies to Grundy, requiring Superman to cut him up into pieces and seal them away from each other to stop him coming back later.

The Beast of the Hand

A literal demon from another dimension who is tied intrinsically to the origin of the Hand.

Dragged Off to Hell: Raven banishes the Beast to her father's dimension after she and the Hulk weaken him, prompted by the Beast boasting that killing him on Earth would do nothing.
Fat Bastard: It's a demon feeding on pain and suffering, appearing as morbidly obese.
Fate Worse than Death: After being banished to Trigon's dimension, Trigon reflects that to thank his daughter for this gift, he will torture the Beast for a millennium for every second the Beast spent on Earth.
It's All About Me: The Beast demonstrates a warped version of this; it's willing to provoke the destruction of this universe just so that it can feed on the despair of that destruction in the moments before it dies.
Villainous Glutton: The Beast feeds on despair, pain, and suffering, and Raven quickly cottons on that he's basically a demonic personification of gluttony, his human shell being morbidly obese, and willing to let Trigon into the universe to feed on the resulting agony of the entire universe as it dies, even if Trigon destroys him in the process.

Ao Shun

One of the dragons of the dimension of K'un-Lun that the Hand brings back to life, hoping to use him to achieve their goals of immortality.

Embarrassing Nickname: Apparently, he considers "Fin Fang Foom" this for being a badly mangled traduction of his true title.
Evil Is Deathly Cold: The Dragon King of Winter. He formerly tried to rebel against K'un-Lun, and later got affiliated with Trigon.
Eye Scream: Superman kills him by flying straight through his eye and into his brain.
Hurl It into the Sun: After killing him, Superman throws him into the sun so that he can't be resurrected again.
Our Dragons Are Different: He belongs to the Eastern variety, can wield chi and elements to a breathtaking degree and will resurrect as he pleases without specific precautions taken beforehand.
Resurrective Immortality: As long as his bones are still in the physical plane, he can come back. He was first entombed within a heavily warded tomb to prevent this, and Superman ultimately throws his corpse into the sun.
Weather Manipulation: He wasn't known as the Dragon King of Winter for nothing, his mere presence being enough to cause a blizzard.

Trigon the Terrible

A frighteningly powerful demon lord allied with the Hand. Cut off from the mortal plain, he continues to cause trouble for Earth in the form of the Black Skies.

Always a Bigger Fish: The Beast is very much a fiend, but it quickly understands it's nothing but a gnat compared to Trigon.
Archnemesis Dad: Raven loathes him with all her might.
Cold-Blooded Torture: His entire dimension is devoted to this, and he's ecstatic when offered the Beast to punish by Raven.
Dimension Lord: After consuming the Heart of Darkness, he became the dimension itself. And since it was the beginning and ending of all Evil in the multiverse, you can see why it's a bad, bad thing.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In his twisted, monstrous way, Trigon actually seems to care for his half-human daughter.
- Madame Gao declares he accepted to resurrect Ao Shun in exchange for the Hand giving him Raven back, and would consider her a favored lieutenant if she decided to join his side.
- He considers the opportunity of torturing the Beast a gift from her, and refuses to be remiss in his fatherly duties by sparing the fiend she marked for punishment.
Greater-Scope Villain: To Raven's story and the Daredevil arc.
Green-Eyed Monster: He's rather irked to learn his daughter prefers Superman to him and would actually fight him for the mortal's sake.
Satanic Archetype: Made even more blatant when Matt thinks of him as he discusses Evil with his priest.
So Proud of You: He's extremely pleased to see how powerful Raven is, and outright giddy when she casts the Beast into his dimension for punishment.
We Can Rule Together: Madame Gao claims he wants Raven as a Princess beside him. Judging from his apparition, she was truthful.
You Cannot Grasp the True Form: A mere glimpse of him was enough to drive his mortal bride to the brink of insanity. Even the Beast — a demon and higher entity in its own right — is unable to fully comprehend Trigon.

The Klyntar

A race of amorphous, parasitic life forms that are capable of forging symbiotic bonds with living hosts to form single entities with formidable strength, agility, and intuitiveness. Also known as "symbiotes".

In General

Power Copying: If they bond with a superpowered host, symbiotes can acquire the genetic information of that host's powers and pass them onto other hosts.
The Dreaded: They are widely reviled by the interstellar communities, including some of its darker denizens like the Dark Elves.
Hated by All: The symbiotes are feared and hated by the universe's sapient inhabitants due to their corrupted brethren's blood lust, habit of taking complete control of their hosts' bodies and then with draining them of their vitality. However, a majority of them are innocent and curious, and any maliciousess that they display are usually a result of their own posessivess towards their hosts or any negative behaviors they may acquire from said hosts.
Innocent Aliens: The symbiotes are not by nature a malevolent race, just extremely possessive and vindictive to a fault. This fault is what led to the rise of a corrupted strain of symbiotes that has terrorized the universe, leading to their Hated by All status.
Not Good with Rejection: The symbiotes do not take kindly to their hosts rejecting them, as evidenced by Solar declaring vengeance against Clark for leaving it behind on Morag.
Starfish Aliens: When not bonded with a host, symbiotes are blobs comprised of a goo made of non-organic minerals that exist between the real world and an extradimensional plane of existence where space and time do not exist.

Solar

A Klyntar that bonded with Clark, but was rejected and bonded with Alflyse to seek vengeance.

Power Copying: Thanks to its brief bond with Clark, the Solar symbiote can bestow other hosts with the powers of a Kryptonian, but amplified.
Create Your Own Villain: There was no indication upon its introduction that Solar was malicious, and had Clark not rejected and left it behind on Morag, it may not have become hostile.
Not Good with Rejection: Solar takes Clark's rejection of it very hard, and upon joining with a mortally injured Alflyse, it swears revenge against Superman.

Other Enemies

Adversaries who have so far only been shown acting for their own interests, rather than as part of a coordinated effort with others.

Loki

Thor's adopted brother who previously invaded Earth with an army of Chitauri prior to Clark's joining the team.

Adaptational Heroism: His takeover of Asgard in the MCU was largely for selfish reasons, but here, he seems to be doing it to prepare Asgard for something worse than him.
Annoying Younger Sibling: For all their current coldness, Loki gleefully jumping on the opportunity to humiliate Thor by reminding him of an embarrassing incident in front of his friends and lady love reeks of this.
Anti-Hero: Seems to be working behind the scenes to protect Asgard from a more powerful threat.
Fantastic Racism: As per canon, Loki thinks little of humans or other 'lesser races', believing they are better off being ruled by the universe's more powerful species.
Foil: To Superman. Both he and Loki were taken in and raised by a species other than their own and grew up completely unaware of their true origins. However, while Loki tried to conquer after learning the truth about himself, Clark dedicated his life to protecting 'lesser races'.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: While Loki is in denial over this, his fall to darkness is largely due to his need for validation and recognition from Odin.

Malekith

A Dark Elf sorcerer with a grudge against Asgard that seeks to use the Aether to convert the universe to a primordial state.

Arc Villain: For the Convergence arc, as per canon.
Bad Boss: According to Alflyse, Malekith's ambitions and goals have done more harm to her people than good, as it was his plan to attack the Nine Realms that led to the Dark Elves being largely exterminated by Bor.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: In canon, Malekith was crushed to death by his own flagship on Svartalfheim. Here, he is beaten to death by a tag-team assault from Clark, Thor, and the Hulk.
Evil Sorcerer: His mastery of magic was good enough to mold the Aether from an Infinity Stone, which is no small feat.
Fantastic Racism: Malekith absolutely despises both Asgardians and Kryptonians, as both races were more or less responsible for the near-annihilation of his people. He outwardly refers to Clark with dehumanizing terms like "it" and "abomination". He also cares little for humans, seeing them as insects. As a result, he is unpleasantly surprised when the Avengers manage to slaughter practically all of his soldiers.
Omnicidal Maniac: His goal is the use the Aether to convert the universe to the state it was in before the Big Bang, a process which would kill every living thing in existence.
Really 700 Years Old: He was one of the Dark Elves that made the initial journey into the new universe after the destruction of the old one. This makes him over 13 billion years old. The oldest character to have appeared in the story so far.
Time Abyss: He's confirmed to be older than the universe itself.
The Usurper: Malekith actually stole leadership of the Dark Elves from Alflyse after he forged the Aether, reducing her to a mere faceless grunt in his personal army.

Lorelei

A narcissistic Asgardian sorceress with the power to control the minds of men.

A God Am I: As Sif points out, its rare to impossible for someone to have the kind of power of manipulation that Lorelei has and not develop some kind of god complex.
Arc Villain: For the Lorelei arc.
Asshole Victim: Considering her overall sociopathic behavior, it's hard to feel bad for her when she's last seen about to be experimented on by Loki, who wants her power for himself.
The Bad Guy Wins: In an alternate future. It's thankfully averted, but the Ancient One reveals that had she not intervened, Lorelei would have won, enthralling both Clark and the other male Avengers and amassing a force that would have overthrown the Earth governments. However, it also would have led to the destruction of the sanctums, resulting in the planet being consumed by Dormammu.
Compelling Voice: The main power that makes Lorelei so dangerous, even if it only works on men (although it is noted that she can only affect men).
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: She is utterly incapable of comprehending the idea that Kal-El would help humans rather than try to rule them.
It's All About Me: Lorelei’s attitude to a T; as far as she’s concerned, everyone else should be worshiping her and that’s it.
Successful Sibling Syndrome: Lorelei is resentful of her older sister Amora, who has a reputation for being infinitely more powerful than she is.

Kilgrave

A man with powerful mind-control powers who spent months controlling Jessica before she managed to break free and (apparently) kill him.

And I Must Scream: Jessica explains that she was always aware of what Kilgrave was making her do and couldn't do anything to stop it.
The Dreaded: Even when thinking that Kilgrave is dead, Jessica's talk about him reinforces Clark's decision to learn how to defend his mind against future attacks after the close call with Lorelei.
Everyone Has Standards: When Jessica first tells Clark about Kilgrave, Clark muses that he didn't even hate Zod as much as he hates Kilgrave after hearing her story, disgusted that Kilgrave destroyed Jessica's faith in herself.
Not So Similar: Jessica observes that Kilgrave's control over her was different to Lorelei's control of Clark as she still had enough awareness to hate what he was making her do but couldn't make herself stop it.
Posthumous Character: By the time Jessica meets Clark, she believes Kilgrave is dead, but her time under his control still haunts her.

Hela

Thor's older biological sister who once led a campaign of oppression against the Nine Realms before being imprisoned on Niflheim by Odin.

Early-Bird Cameo: Briefly appears in the Convergence arc, as Superman travels over Niflheim.
Omnicidal Maniac: When Hela senses Clark during his brief flight over her prison during the Convergence, she develops a desire to snuff out his light and vitality.

Thanos

An interplanetary warlord who is indirectly responsible for the formation of the Avengers after he sent Loki and the Chitauri to Earth to collect the Tesseract.

The Dreaded: One of the most powerful and feared beings in the universe.

Magneto

A powerful mutant with control over metal. Once a former friend of Professor Xavier, he now leads a rogue sect of mutants who seek conflict with humans instead of peace.

Blob

A hulking mutant with superhuman strength and durability and an enforcer of Magneto.

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